1. We don't need to ensure happiness. The Constitution says "pursuit of happiness". Actual happiness is not a guarantee. 2. Ensuring someone else's happiness by making me pay FICA taxes that I am never going to see back is pissing me off. How does that ensure my happiness, eh? 3. When exactly did you pivot 180 degrees on Social Security and Medicare? There are lots of emails on this list where you derided both programs and the government generally as bankrupt, so what gives?
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Gruss G wrote: > > Sam wrote: > > GG won't agree. > > > > I think they've all been phenomenal successes and the reason is > simple: human beings cannot be trusted to act in their own economic > best interest. > > Thus to ensure happiness for all, we need to force people to do the > right thing and one of those things is saving for retirement. If the > government doesn't make them, they won't, and then one way or another > people like me who do save will end up paying for them anyway. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:286510 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
