From: khaled Alkotob (khaledsa@juno.com)
Date: Fri Apr 29 2005 - 16:20:59 BST
I am just going to examine just one point here. I have been hearing about
the SS issue and the reform it needs. Yes it does need changing, for one
thing people are living longer and the way the system is set up will be
bankrupt soon.
I had never thought of it in a way that if you invest it right, and don't
use all of it, your children get to inherit. Great point.
Unfortunately, while I support the effort 100%, I am very nervous of
having ALL my retirement in the private sector. Does Enron mean anything.
We already hear about the bad things companies do because "they have an
obligation tot heir share holders."
Here in California we are still recovering from the mess we got into due
tot he greed of the energy companies a few years ago. There are
documented phone calls and e-mails encouraging the shut down of
generation plants so prices can go up.
I don't want more government oversight into private businesses. I want
the private sector to have more Stewardship toward what the do.
So while SS needs fixing, i question the motive. This president, who
can't even pronounce the word "nuclear right", does not have the
intelligence to have initiated the reform on his own. There is a motive
somewhere behind it. Just like the medicare reform fiasco passed last
year. Yes it needed fixing, but now we find out that it was financed by
the drug companies.
Reforms not to favor the citizens but the private companies that can
benefit. This government, that wants the individuals to take
responsibility for themselves, tend to be in support of corporate
welfare.
Khaled
Plat wrote
> Other progressive moves the New Victorians block are: a reform
> Social
> Security so the poor can leave assets to their children; an effort
> shake
> up the UN to increase its effectiveness and avoid future scandals;
> a call
> to permit democracy to work at the state level to determine abortion
>
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