[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Kenneth Fairfield]

On Thursday, December 8, 2011 6:25:27 AM UTC-8, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <jbn3ma$lt5$1... at online.de>, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> > 
> > No, I think it's possible, it's just that I wouldn't call the US a
> > socialist country, as some people (some who are opposed to Obama, say) 
> > do in exaggeration.
> 
>    The we agree on.  To me, the US is not a socialist country, the US
>    government is not a socialist government.  But Social Security is a
>    socialist program.

No, Social Security is an *insurance* program: you pay into
over your working lifetime, and you draw out of once you
reach the age for which your cohort qualifies.  (Also note
that Social Security is entirely self-sufficient in that
SSI taxes, and only SSI taxes, fund it.  For deficit hawks,
SSI contributes $0.00 to the US debt.  In fact, the SSI
Trust Fund loans money *to* the US govt...and only to the
US govt...by investing in US Treasury Bonds, which is 
mandated by law.)

Back to lurking and generally skipping over this thread...

   -Ken