[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[AEF]

On Dec 9, 10:54 am, Kenneth Fairfield <ken.fairfi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, December 8, 2011 8:37:49 PM UTC-8, AEF wrote:
> > On Dec 8, 9:55 pm, c.... at wvnet.edu (George Cook) wrote:
> > > In article <28187830.863.1323362221431.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums at pril5>, Kenneth Fairfield <ken.fa... at gmail.com> writes:
> > > > 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:
>
> > [. . . trimming in effect here . . . ]
>
[ . . . serious trimming happening here . . . ]

> > According to a cousin of mine who is a successful investment banker:
> > Fixing Social Security is "a math problem," as he put it. "If we can't
> > do that, we can't fix anything," or something to that effect.
>
> Indeed.  Just lift the cap on SSI tax for incomes in excess of $106K and the problem disappears.  Sigh...

How about changing the retirement age? Implementing means testing? And
raising the "cap"?

Compared to other problems, esp. health care, it's a math problem.

> BTW, I agree with the gist of George's follow-up: the "temporary" reduction in SSI tax is not a good idea.  For one thing, it makes its financials look worse, and therefore lends credence to the <false> claims by the right that this an "entitlement", e.g., "welfare", program.  OTOH, eliminating the cap solves all its solvency (real or imagined) problems well beyond the foreseeable future.

Wait a minute. Didn't you just pooh-pooh eliminating the cap just one
short paragraph above? Which do you advocate? Elimination or not?

>
>     -Ken

AEF