Besides which, we greedy geezers will pass our ill-gotten wealth down to you hard-pressed Xers and your children in due time via the normal process of inheritance, if the medical bills needed to keep us functioning don't eat every last bit of it up.
http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/ > From: ju...@zurg.net > To: brin-l@mccmedia.com > Subject: RE: Down with the government > Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:35:21 -0500 > > "The old people" don't equate to "the old culture". There's a fairly large > intersection of the two, but neither is a subset (proper or improper) of the > other. > > "Old people", or more to the point, their lobbies (think AARP) wield a fair > amount of political power right now. That's where the Social > Security/Medicare untouchability comes from. The "old culture" is losing > cultural ground and trying to make up for it by seizing whatever political > ground it can. > > Julia > > -----Original Message----- > From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On > Behalf Of John Williams > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 11:42 PM > To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion > Subject: Re: Down with the government > > I'm curious, if the old culture is in such decline, why are Social Security > and Medicare still untouchable? There is no way, with the current system, > that today's young and middle-aged are going to get as much out of the > system as they put in. It is a giant Ponzi scheme. So if the old are so > powerless, why doesn't the system get reformed to be more age-equitable? > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com >
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