Social Security: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme on Earth (By Milton Friedman)

Re:Social Security: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme on Earth (By Mi... by chaostheory on Monday January 05, 2009 @07:49AM (#420343)

for the record I am not a conservative, nor was my account just created today (specifically just a few minutes ago like your account. Let me guess, your past yc news account was NSX2?).

I just feel that hacker news is a forum for posting a wide range of ideas. If you don't agree with an article you can do one of two things:

1) post a logical counter argument like some people already have.

2) ignore it.

I really hate posts that really have nothing to do with the general ideas that articles convey. it tends to become useless noise.

This isn't about conservatism vs liberalism. This is about US Social Security. Please stick with the subject.

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Re:Social Security: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme on Earth (By Mi... by tokenadult on Monday January 05, 2009 @08:39AM (#420397)

"I really hate posts that really have nothing to do with the general ideas that articles convey."

Agreed. You gave us the courtesy of titling the thread in a way that made clear what the thread was about. Anyone commenting here can express one opinion about Social Security or another, preferably with evidence, and then we can all learn something. I just found a link from Harvard

http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/hjackson/UnfundedMandates...

mentioning that Congress has exempted Social Security from a law designed to identify programs that set up "unfunded mandates." That's food for thought.

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