On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 13:29:49 -0700 (PDT), "
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On Monday, August 3, 2015 at 3:59:40 PM UTC-4, Ed Huntress wrote:

I don't recall anyone ever telling me that. Anyone who followed the
extensive news coverage of the adjustments made in '83, or Greenspan's
controversial comments about it in the years since, would know better.

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Ed Huntress

You must have not paid any attention to Al Gore.

During the presidential debate, Vice President Gore told the nation, "I will keep Social Security in a lockbox, and that pays down the national debt."

You really have a better memory than that.

And you believed him? I thought you would have known enough about it
to know better.

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Ed Huntress

You said no one ever told you that.

I don't think I ever heard Gore or anyone else say that. If I had, I
would have known enough not to believe it.

My reply has nothing to do with what I believe . It was just that people in the government did try to tell you that Social Security was safe because of the trust fund. They made a big thing about the trust fund. Anyone with any sense knew better, but millions were deceived.

Greenspan didn't help, but his argument was pretty arcane. In any
case, most people think that economics is balancing a checkbook and
learning to bake an apple pie. I just throw up my hands over what they
believe. Look at the insanity that BMUS regularly posts. He's got the
cost of a Big Mac up to $17 now, with no apology or correction. g

Big lies sometimes work well enough.

Sure.


Dan