At 03:01 PM 2/19/2005 -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote: >On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 05:25:36 -0500, Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >> * Doug Pensinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >>> So you put 12.4% of your income (to some limit), your employer matches >>> it and vwala! You've saved for retirement!! >> >> Besides being wrong here about the number, the actual amount going to SS >> is not enough (even if it really were "saved") to provide people with >> the retirement most people would like. That is rather the point of a lot >> of the threads here. > >I understand that and have been supportive of many of the reforms you and >others have mentioned. John's statement made it sound as if people >receiving SS are living completely off of the largess of the working >public when, in fact, they have at least paid _some_ of their dues.
Only to the extent that paying taxes can be described as "paying dues." JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
