And what of the arguement re homosexual civil ceremony?

When have you ever found anyone willing not to impose their judgements on others, no matter what their “religion,” be it Christianity, humanitarism, “just-have-fun-ism” or whatever?

Faith without works is dead. La Shawn’s entry about the school board is proof of that.

The day that the stock market trends down is the day that the US govt will not be able to sustain SS in any shape or form no matter what — we all will be in trouble, not just here but globally. Shucks, even T-Bills have a better rate of return than the miserable socialist economic gadget masquerading as a social safety net.

Simple economics would say it makes sense to allow individuals to privatise 1/2 of their usual SS taxes and remit the other half to the govt as a saftey net for the employment-challenged. The half that I privatize would easily provide me 3 – 4 times as much as SS could ever hope to dole out to me.

In exchange for that opportunity, I would be “glad” to kiss the other half goodbye, just so I don’t have to hear stories of widdle old ladies living on a pittance, or old men living under a bridge, cause SS only goes as far as sustenance.

While it’s well know that the power of compound interest is awesome, I just can’t trust the govt, ie politicians and bureaucrats, to keep their grubby hands off.

If in our democratic society, we are free to follow whatever beliefs we choose, so long as we do not impose on others…

…and if government should be small and not intrude upon the rights of invididuals…

…and if people who get married are not compelled by law to have children…

…then why shouldn’t two legal-aged citizens enter into an exclusive arrangement providing each other financial security? Like a civil ceremony?

…P.S. Does marriage automatically mean children? If so, shouldn’t all childless couples be forced to have kids, or else be divorced?

…P.P.S. Underaged kids are being forced to marry in settlements in Utah. Illegal, yes, but it follows their particular religious beliefs. If they honestly believe God tells them to do so, should our society squash their beliefs for the sake of our propriety?

I think he read a *FEW* of our blogs yesterday morning, LaShawn! I hit the same issues, as did Kim du Toit and several others. Good, though. He has a lot of responsibility since he’s sort of got the power.

Part of the problem is that they argued against people using the term ’social security privatization’. Its disengenous to now say thats what you have been elected to do. Specially when we know people went to the polls for bush overwhelmingly on moral issues.

I learn so much from my commenters, including you. I’m honored that you consider my blog worthy of your time. I’m just as excited about what’s happening, and it’s going to be a blast witnessing it together!

Social Security privatization will begin. For those still fighting the battle, the war is over. Respect the peoples democratic decision and save yourself stress.

Well, this seems to be quite the thread. I may have missed something, but the balance of this seems to be around “privatizing Social Security.” Everyone seems to be missing the basic, fundamental, colossal failure of Social Security: it’s a Ponzi scheme!!! I don’t care if it’s David Duke, Lyndon LaRouche (sp?), John Kerry, or whoever else: I’ll knock down old ladies to get to the polls to vote for the person who bothers to come out and admit, and run on, the fact that someday this house of cards must come down. The sad fact is that, at some point, one generation will have to support a prior generation in order to get us out of this mess.

On a relatively unrelated note, I would like the opinions of others on this idea. As a preface, I freely pronounce that I am a white Christian male, for the sake of honesty. So, here we are:

At this point, we conservatives should be looking toward 2008. It seems pretty obvious to me that the Left will be doing all they can to run Hillary. So, here’s my question:

A Rice/Powell ticket for 2008?

It seems to me to be an undefeatable ticket, would Colin’s wife allow it (I know, vice-, but his wife has to be equally concerned about it). Personally, I think a Condi/anyone ticket is undefeatable.

Thoughts?

Wise and positive words Solo.

Thats what we save a surplus for. And thats what increasing productivity helps with. Thats what increasing immigration helps with. Thats what decreasing the number of abortions helps with. and lastly, what us paying more is going to help with. yes. this costs money. it takes money from me and gives it some old person that i dont know. but you know what? it also means we don’t have terrible poverty among the retired.

I think its worth it. And I think a lot of americans think its worth it, though they may have been told that social security needs fixing, they don’t think it should be eliminated. In fact, a lot of them want it fixed because they want it around. Privatization is not a fix of social security. Its a destruction. Because that is neither social, nor secure.