On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 09:26:23 -0500, "Kurt V. Ullman"
wrote:

On 12/4/16 10:26 PM, Roger Blake wrote:
On 2016-12-04, Stormin' Norman wrote:
Institutionalized theft, using your logic one could call Social
Security a Ponzi scheme. However, both statements are wrong as we the
people have legislated and legalized taxation, social security and
conscription. If you did not have a say in these legislations, you
might have a point, however, our society has deemed them to be legal.

Social Security *is* a Ponzi scheme by any reasonable definition of the term.


I have one problem with calling SS a Ponzi scheme. Mr. Ponzi's
victims were all voluntary and the "investment" was enforced by guys
with guns, and forfeiture warrants.



With all due respect, if you and others object to the law, change it.
That is your right.

Most people spend more time each month playing on Usenet, watching TV,
listening to the radio, surfing the web, etc. then they spend
exercising their rights as citizens and getting involved in our
governance.