RE: SS REFORM

[Ruth Reilly <achren2@aol.com>]

Most of us do not seem to be discussing the values that led the
 USA to set up Social Security, nor the corollary question:  have
our values changed so much in the last 70 years that social
security no longer accords with them?

How many think old people who have not saved for whatever reason
should be allowed to die from not having an income?

How many think children or charities should provide food, shelter,
and other necessities of life for the aged poor?

How many think the lame, the halt, the blind, and the not at all
bright should be left to shift for themselves?

What some are promoting as sound capitalist doctrine sounds a
lot like the rhetoric that came out of Germany in the 30's.