At 01:24 PM 2/18/2005 -0800, you wrote: >Dan Minette wrote: > >> Yes, you and I definitely helped build tomorrow's economy. I have no shame >> in receiving Social Security. But, there is a limit on how much I feel I >> can ask of my kids to support me in turn. Further, even if I don't have >> grandchildren, I don't want to pass on a big burden to that generation. > >What don't seem to be getting and Erik definitely hasn't, is that I have never opposed making >changes to Social Security to ensure that we don't burden future generations unfairly.
What's fair? It seems to me that fair is for people to take responsibility for their own retirements as best they are possible, and only relying upon the generosity of society when absolutely necessary, and for the bare minimum necessary. Let me put it another way. Retirement is a predictable and forseeable problem. One can reasonably assume that as one advances in years, one will want to continue to consume goods and services, and that one will be either unwilling or unable to work in order to fund that consumption. Thus, isn't the moral thing to do to save in proper amounts to fund one's retirement, rather than leaving that problem to be solved by future generations? JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
