----- Original Message ----- From: "David B. Shemano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Just as one example, social security was created in the Depression as insurance, in the sense that the government was insuring you against the unlikely possibility that you might actually reach 65 and retire. Comparatively, 75 years later, where average life span has greatly increased and the average worker can expect 15-20 years of retirement, the "insurance" model is an anachronism, and for you to defend policies created in the Depression as the solution to the issues faced today is more ahistorical than anything I have said. David Shemano ----- The Social Security system in the US is no more anachronistic or broken than the Treasury Dept. Of all the Federal bureaucracies/programs it is the most efficient. It has not lead to unfreedom or injustice for anyone. If you want to *really think* about an anachronistic and *downright dangerous* Federal agency why don't Libertarians cast their cognitive skills at dismantling, say, the Pentagon, which is spreading misery across our world faster than any other Federal agency. It makes a complete mockery of human liberty and family values.................
