RE: Values

[Ruth Reilly <achren2@aol.com>]

My answers to  M Jabbour's Quiz
1. Does Social Security promote individual retirement or suppress it?
A.  Social Security promotes it.  A larger fraction of Americans
 have individual retirement funds set aside now than when Social 
Security began.
2. How can a system that pays benefits from current income
 survive during demographic shifts, such as the upcoming Baby
 Boom generation's retirement?
A.  That is what we are discussing.  There are only probabilities.
No one, no matter how conservative or liberal or moderate knows
the future.  
3. Other than following the laws of the Constitution and ensuring 
where another's begin and vice-versa, does the government have a 
right to make an action "compulsory" for your own "good"? 
A.  This question is gibberish and gets an "F" in English.  
Rewrite it, please.
4. Does the "Federal"(?) government have the right to collect an
 income tax from an individual citizen?
A. Under the U.S. constitution as amended, it certainly does.
5. Does the "Federal" government have a right or an obligation 
to provide welfare services to citizens who, for whatever reason,
cannot or will not provide for their own prosperity?
A.  I find this a complicated legal question that i am not
competent to answer.  It has been the consensus in the U.S. during
most of my lifetime and in all other advanced countries today 
that it does.
6. Can the United States of America continue to exist as a
 republic with a capitalist economy if the "Federal" government
 persists in its employment of fascist-socialist methods?
A.  This is a very fine example of what a total lack of logic can 
do to a question, and as such does not deserve an answer.

I do not think this quiz is helpful to the discussion.  There are,
after all, real problems in the world, and some of us are
trying to help solve them.