On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:34:47 GMT, "carl mciver"
wrote:


"Cliff" wrote in message
news | On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:45:01 +0800, hamei wrote:

SNIP
| Meanwhile, back at the Texas ranch, this all seems to
| be a plan to loot the social security *surplus* by the
| neocons. Plus, they want two+ more TRILLION US dollars
| in deficit spending to do it.
| --
| Cliff

Kinda curious. What's the return on investment of your SSI?

IS it an "investment"? How high is the risk, excluding wingers &
neocons?

How much
have _you_ put in, and how much of it do you expect to get back?

How much profit do you expect on a term life policy with a mutual
firm?

On the other hand, what's the worst return on investment of a CD?

After inflation & taxes they are usually a loss.

Or the average of a generic mutual fund over your lifetime?

How about after Bush & the neocons?

It's the simple numbers that highlight the truths.

Don't be simple.

Assets behind stocks are bit fixed. Buying more stocks
means someone else is selling them but the price is
going up.
When you have to sell them the price will go down.
All this scheme does is inflate the price of stocks for
a bit (due to increased manditory demand) or provide
funds (new issues of stock) for the firms to invest in
moving your jobs abroad.

Also consider: resources consumed today have to be
there today. There is no free lunch.
This seems to be widely overlooked.
All you will have tomorrow for resources consumed
today is debt. The resources were consumed and the
debt is just a transfer of power to others, not the
consumed resources.

It's a zero sum game, day by day. Don't let them
fool you again.
This culture is not well known for rainy-day stockpiles
and about any real major disaster could topple it from
the bottom of the infrastructure up.

The neocons seem bent on using up any such
stockpiles (deficit financing & world opinion &
do forth) that remain.

HTH
--
Cliff