John: Last week's New Yorker has a very good article also. I kind like private accounts, but not knowing the details, I suspect that the amount in the individual account - at retirement - will be so small as not to have made the risk worthwhile. Don Ward
>From: John Médaille <john@medaille.com>
>Reply-To: homestead@cog.kent.edu
>To: orglabor@cog.kent.edu, ownership@cog.kent.edu,homestead@cog.kent.edu
>Subject: HOMESTEAD: Re: State of the Union
>Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:31:12 -0600
>
>Possibly the best analysis of Social Security comes from the most
>unlikely source, The Weekly Standard. I talked to the author and
>expressed my amazement that such an article could find its way to
>that publication, and he said that he thought that even the
>Republicans were getting scared by this plan and were distancing
>themselves from it.
>
>http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/944uxbbz.asp
>
>
>John C. Médaille
>
>"A dead thing can go with the stream...
>but only a living thing can go against it."
> -G. K. Chesterton
>http://www.medaille.com/distributivism.htm
>john@medaille.com
>
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