Re: the future of social security/medicare

2004-03-17 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Speaking of which: http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/economics/gordon/Productivity-Brookin gs.pdf -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Devine, James Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 5:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the future of social

the future of social security/medicare

2004-03-16 Thread ravi
andie nachgeborenen wrote: I do not expect to have Social Security or Medicare, for example. what did you folks think of kuttner's piece in business week (march 2004): if you have a BW online id (i do not): http://www.businessweek.com/premium/content/04_11/b3874042_mz007.htm?se=1 essentially,

Re: the future of social security/medicare

2004-03-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
of social security/medicare andie nachgeborenen wrote: I do not expect to have Social Security or Medicare, for example. what did you folks think of kuttner's piece in business week (march 2004): if you have a BW online id (i do not): http://www.businessweek.com/premium/content/04_11/b3874042_mz007

Re: the future of social security/medicare

2004-03-16 Thread Shane Mage
-0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: the future of social security/medicare andie nachgeborenen wrote: I do not expect to have Social Security or Medicare, for example. what did you folks think of kuttner's piece in business week (march 2004): if you have a BW online id (i do not): http

Re: the future of social security/medicare

2004-03-16 Thread Devine, James
the main danger to Social Security is not demographic. It's people like Greenspan and Bush. As Doug discovered years ago, the Trustees of the SS are low-balling estimates future economic growth, making the situation look much more dire than it is. Jim Devine [EMAIL

Re: the future of social security/medicare

2004-03-16 Thread Mike Ballard
Thanks for providing the article James. I agree with your assessment 100%. Best, Mike B) = ...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Re: the future of social security/medicare

2004-03-16 Thread joanna bujes
The main danger to SS is that they want to loot it. It's such a nice pile of $$; why should the worker yahoos get it? In fact, they've been looting it for years. Joanna Devine, James wrote: the main danger to Social Security is not demographic. It's people like Greenspan and Bush. As Doug

Re: the future of social security/medicare

2004-03-16 Thread Devine, James
- From: Mike Ballard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 3/16/2004 4:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [PEN-L] the future of social security/medicare Thanks for providing the article James. I agree with your assessment