katysails wrote:
BTW, there won't be any Social Security...

When? As I understand it, the current SS plan is good up into the
2040s... of course that includes a lot of dodges like increasing taxes
on retirement income, raising the benefit age, decreasing benefits, etc etc.

....if you are counting on
Social Security to take care of you when you're ancient, you're really in
sad shape...

Agreed. My advice to anyone looking ahead to retirement is, if you can't
save money now, start eating dog food. 1- it'll help you save and 2-
you'd better get used to the taste.

... that is the biggest myth the Democrats ever promulgated and FDR
never intended that people should live on SS benefits...they were to be an
assistance...

That's true. When first begun it was also an excellent dodge for gov't
finances because far more people were paying in than taking out.

... all the money I have put into the SS system has gone to take
care of those that are drawing right now....

Not entirely true... some of it has gone to buy Treasury bonds.

....Public utilities? What are
those? .....I've never had them so won't miss them.

Ever heard that Hank Williams Jr song about how a country boy can
survive? Of course, there's a lot less country nowadays. You're lucky
there has not been so much growth up there... maybe everybody really is
moving down here.


As far as your abortion diatribe, my opinions do not have anything to do
with government...if the government puts it up for a vote, then as a citizen
I vote and have my say...if it's not to my liking, I have the RIGHT to still
have my say, which you seem to not understand....

True. It's a very thorny issue and contrary to what the media might lead
one to believe, there is a wide range of positions and they all have
some moral right. It is also an older issue than many would believe,
abortion has been practiced almost since the dawn of written history and
every civilization has had issues with it in one form or another. It is
a core human issue.



...because it was a girl baby and not a boy like they wanted....there are
scenarios where an abortion is the lesser of two evils...those incidences
are not in that category...

Just tossing out another random fact... one of the population control
measures in China was subsidized abortion (they may still be doing this)
starting back in the 1960s. Because of the perceived desirability of
boys over girls, parents have been aborting more unborn girls. The
result is that the sex ratio of their population is seriously out of
whack. As China gets more prosperous, we will see tens of millions of
Chinese men shopping for brides in other countries.

Of course, the traditional answer to this problem... excess male
population... is war.


As far as getting out, I'm out every day....I read the medical trade
journals for the long term care industry. What you have to remember is that
San Francisco is not the world...it is a very specialized community that
lives quite differently than the rest of us in the US....

Agreed, but then *every* community is different in one way or another.
It seems to be a question of increasing importance... can we get along
well enough to hold a big country together?

Regards
Doug King