[lit-ideas] Re: Bush taking apart SS
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 08:47:53 -0400
Brian, your posts are based on guesswork. Your facts are nonexistent.
Social Security is not in crisis and has never been in crisis. You most
likely don't know that in 1985 Bush said SS would be bankrupt by 1989.
The 401k is a myth, invented by a business climate that didn't want to
offer retirement benefits. You talk about logical fallacies, how about we
forget the logic and get our facts straight.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17771
Andy Amago
> [Original Message]
> From: Brian <cabrian@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/10/2005 8:06:09 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bush taking apart SS
>
> Eric,
>
> Maybe you like government taking responsibility for your retirement
> without your input. I don't.
>
> A better alternative for SS is to grandfather the system and close it
> down. It would be terrifically generous to the people who
> contributed all their lives and give them their benefits if past a
> certain age and allow people under a certain age to migrate their
> money out in various ways. I'm of an age where the SS money I was
> forced to pay will not be there when my retirement arrives. I'm
> fully capable of planning for my own retirement and do a lot better
> than the buffoons who are spending my interest-free loan
> profligately. Even monkeys doing long division at a chalkboard could
> have figured out a way to get a little simple interest out of this
> system. As I said, I just wish the idea to terminate the plant was
> at least on the table.
>
> Are you in the habit of using the logical fallacies of red herring
> and straw man when arguing? Corpses in the streets, eh? Is it Mardi
> Gras time again already?
>
> ~Brian~
>
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