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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

> This is on the other side of the question:
> 
> OP-ED COLUMNIST
> 
> Real Reform for Social Security
> 
> By DAVID BROOKS
>
> Published: December 11, 2004
>
> Before we get lost in the policy details, let's be clear about what this 
> Social Security reform debate is really about. It's about the market. 

Wrong. It's another way to victimize people :

The millions of old people *on* Social Security - 
and I am speaking from personal experience, 
*as well as *age**, that are depending on that 
check for today's bread and tonight's heating.

It's those millions who *have* paid into it.

And are not *able* to start *now* to learn
about 'investing' - they *had* nothing to
'invest' and don't *now* - they are *existing*
on it because lemme tellya this ain't *livin'*.

It's the millions of *old* low-income people who 
were too busy with back-breaking labor - whether 
"in the home" or out of it - to learn *how* to
"research" corporations' "fitness". 

It's the millions of low-income people *now* who
are *still* working two and three jobs so they can
eat - and feed their kids - who are paying into it,
who have nothing left over to 'invest' in anything 
that has the *real* probability, *not* "possibility" 
of loss.

It's these people who are going to be shafted
by "reform" - and the "reform" *is* going to be
decided by those who don't give a goodgawdam
about who is cleaning their bathrooms and
weeding their landscape and voted for by the 
sheeple - 'those who have eyes and cannot see' 
and 'those who have ears and cannot hear'.
And some of them are on this list.
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Ever heard the phrase "If it ain't broken,
don't fix it" ?

Ever seen the guy with the three shells,
the fast hands, and the little pea who asks
you "which shell is it under" ?

Are you reading about the current deficit
being in the trillions and climbing ? How
*stupid* can one be to believe that the
same people who are maiming and killing
Americans are interested in the welfare
of anyone but themselves - and taking
anything that doesn't have a guy with
a gun pointing at *them* from behind it ...