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A Few More Words About Social Security

December 28, 2008
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about an out-of-the-box solution to part of our Social Security problem–that is, how to pay for so many benefits as our population ages and lives longer.   I received many great responses, but most of the critical ones centered around one idea, which is espoused by the following two emails:   “OK so you pay off all these people with trillions of dollars and buy out their social security and in 10 years when these people have blown/mismanaged this cash they end up on welfare and the government ends up supporting them anyway!...

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