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wow samcol: that reads like one of the more in-a-twist position papers you might get from the hoover institution without the accompanying facts.
you might want to consider the historical fact of the matter: without mechanism for the redistrubtion of wealth, you would in all probability be thinking about capitalism as an object of nostalgia because it would have imploded long ago. you cannot expect a population to submit to the unequal barbarism of the capitalist system when it is left to itself for any amount of time. social security was one of a number of such programs around the industrialized world instituted to stave off the threat from a politically mobilized working class.
i am not sure what kind of capitalism you are cheerleading for behind the screen of pseudo-argument against social security itself--something in the 19th century english mode? that worked just great--read "on the condition of the working class in manchester" or any a thousand other books that outline the degress of dehumanization visited upon millions for the material benefit of holders of capital. what a fine system that was. and obviously it is only the truly informed who would want to opt for a new version of that.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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