On 10-19-10, MARK LEWIS said to TIM RICHARDSON:   
      
      
   TR> Do the math........at some point....nobody's gonna be able to eat   
   TR> lunch, because there won't be enough coming in to pay for it.   
      
      
   ML>nice story but it still does not answer the questions i posed... everyone   
   ML>who is working has to pay into the system... if they do not use the monies   
   ML>they paid in by participating in the system, then why cannot others use   
   ML>those monies??   
      
      
   I and many other people pay auto insurance. I've been with the same company   
   for over twenty years, and had one accident that was the other guy's fault.   
   His insurance company paid to have our vehicle fixed.   
      
      
   So......you could say that I've paid those monies into the system by   
   participating, but never `used' it.   
      
      
   Why should someone else who has *not* paid into the system get to use what *I*   
   paid into it? Why should *I* have to pay for someone's accident who has no   
   insurance, and has *never* had any?   
      
      
   And its the same with the Social Security monies I've paid in all these years.   
   I paid in for many years, enough to be recieving a fairly good monthly return   
   for it.   
      
      
   But my return would be much higher if the monies weren't also going to support   
   people who do not work. Who whine about headaches, or sore backs. Not to   
   mention all the other boondoggles those monies have been stretched out to pay   
   for.   
      
      
   ML>if you allow no one can to them, then you are wasting your   
   ML>monies and showing a very negative charitable side...   
      
      
   The money is only being `wasted' by the politicians who have control over it.   
   Any time you have politicians controlling large sums of money that belong to   
   the people they are supposed to be looking out for, as well as governing....   
   you get a whole lot of `governing', and very little `looking out for'.   
      
      
   It isn't the `governed' who waste the monies.....its the politicians.   
      
      
   As for a `negative charitable side'.......the last time I looked, `charitable'   
   was a matter of personal choice. What the government does with much of the   
   monies we pay into the system isn't on a `charitable' level.....it is   
   `mandate'....enforced at the point of a gun.   
      
      
   That isn't charity.....thats theft!   
      
      
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