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  • christian  Scoble points to blog posts all the time in his google reader shared items. I really dont think there would be much value in a guest post on his personal blog.
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    •   Will Scoble pick up his own Gauntlet?
    •   TechWinter
  •   Roger Kondrat  Hey Christian It was a totally risky post, I just thought I would hang myself out there and give my two cents to the discussion. Scoble is big and whatever he does it will impact everyone so I tried to do my part and map something out for him to think about and maybe it would impact the end result in a positive way. I know Scoble shares all the time, no doubt he is a good guy who takes a lot of responsibility for things he isn't even close to being solely responsible for creating. Thanks for dropping by Christian :) 2008/7/23 Disqus :
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  • christian  Not trying to flame, just getting to the crux of how we see this issue. I appreciate this dialog. Just because we can say that SS has "run in the black" right now, does not mean that the note will come due, and our kids are going to be forced to pay for it. This is where the idea is backwards. Our goal as parents should be to work hard and save up enough so that at the end of our lives we have not spent more that we made. Hopefully we should have something to leave our kids. But with social security, the FedGov collects the savings, spends it, and then asks us to trust that they have the math worked out. The only way you can make that math work is to have a much higher birth rate than we have now, or much more immigration. We need more workers. Which turns into a ponzi scheme or a game of musical chairs. Someone is going to lose one way or the other. That math will never work out. Its not just the bush spending, its been going on for years. Politicians and big government are who spent it. The full faith and credit of the united states is in the ability to increase debt or increase taxes, thats it.
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Privatizing Social Security: Reason #6,467,982 not to vote McCain
    •   Bang the Drum
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  • christian  Actually he is correct. I liked Ron Paul's plan to continue to provide for those that need it, but be honest with the next generations and phase out this deceptive program.
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Privatizing Social Security: Reason #6,467,982 not to vote McCain
    •   Bang the Drum
  •   Karoli  Christian. For him to be correct, he would need to explain why social security funding has run in the black since 1976, and has reserves set aside of more than 2 trillion. He can't explain it without clearly articulating that the bonds issued by the government and purchased by the trust fund have funded Bush deficits for the past eight years, primarily for the war. When Clinton left office the surplus was nearing the point of retiring those bonds. For him to be right, one must acknowledge the complete failure of the Bush Doctrine as the 'ridiculous' program bankrupting social security. The problem with the Ron Paul theory of governing is that it is predicated on the assumption that society is a collection of people with no moral or social obligation to one another, where individual is king. I disagree.
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  • christian  Its a really bad use of money, period. I don't want my kids to have to continue to be forced to throw money down the toilet. You get to apply for benefits at the right age and are paid based on how many quarters you paid int the system. But its still an entitlement http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/entitlement?rdfrom=Entitlement&redirect=no
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Privatizing Social Security: Reason #6,467,982 not to vote McCain
    •   Bang the Drum
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  • christian  I know you are not going to like this but you are completely wrong about what Social Security is and how it works. It was spent long before the war in Iraq. Social Security is sold to us as belonging to us, but it does not, and it is in fact an entitlement program. It is a horrible way to "invest".
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Privatizing Social Security: Reason #6,467,982 not to vote McCain
    •   Bang the Drum
  •   Karoli  I respectfully disagree. There are some real problems with how Social Security is funded, but it is not an entitlement program. Welfare could be called an entitlement, but not Social Security. The primary flaw in Social Security is the pay-as-you-go funding arrangement, which has never been permitted in the private pension system and shouldn't be permitted in the Social Security system either. However, privatizing Social Security is no answer at all. It doesn't address how it's funded or how benefits are calculated. While it's very popular to shrug and write off Social Security as nothing more than an entitlement, it's actually much more nuanced than that. The attitude of dismissal is partly responsible for the condition Social Security is in. While the Congress is overly diligent about overseeing private pension law and funding rules, it is equally lax about how Social Security is funded and structured. Dropping that ball and handing it to the private pension system is a grave mistake, as any participant in a Defined Benefit plan provided by their employer can attest.
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