On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Doug:
>> It's no more so than any pension scheme. Today's retirees are paid by 
>> today's workers. Tomorrow's retirees will be paid by tomorrow's workers. 
>> What's Ponzi about that? <
>
> The idea that OASI is a "Ponzi scheme" seems nothing but a matter of
> rhetoric, at a much lower intellectual level than assertions about
> demographic problems in its future.


I wouldn't be so dismissive. Doug's answer is accurate and gets to the
point, the real question is why so many people think that a system set
up like this i.e. "pay as you go" where the young pay for the old is
undesirable.
-raghu.


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