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From: tjj@ssc-vax.UUCP (T J Jardine)
Newsgroups: net.taxes
Subject: Re: SS deduction
Message-ID: <632@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 15:08:56 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 16 15:08:56 1985
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> ...
> I know, the poor retirees need more money on their fixed income and it
> has to come from somewhere, so why not us. My opinion on this is most sour.
> 
> I am not my brothers keeper and these people have had their whole lives
> to prepare for retirement and if they come up short at retirement time
> they have only themselves to blame. 
> ...

You may believe that you are not your brother's keeper, I guess that's your
decision to make.  But you sound an awful lot like the fellow, witnessing a
pedestrian in a crosswalk who has been hit by a drunk driver, and grumbling
that the pedestrian was at fault since he should have been driving instead
of walking.  I guess I come from a different educational process -- one
which emphasizes compassion and instills the remembrance that one day we
may find ourselves in a position of needing someone else's compassion.
Sorry to take up other folks' time with a posting, but this sort of attitude
is really disgusting.
-- 
TJ (with Amazing Grace) The Piper
Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center
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