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Subject: Re: how not-helping-people hurts them (.
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 02:29:00 EDT
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>/**** inmet:net.politics / mit-vax!oaf /  3:26 pm  May 22, 1985 ****/
>>Before the subject is dropped I'd like to state that I feel I did address
>>this issue in my response.  I said something on the order of  --
>>I don't see how not helping someone can be construed as hurting them.
>>						Mike Sykora
>
>	Denial of cost-of-living increases in social security benefits
>	hurts them.  Recipients' real income drops.
>

True, in one sense.  Not paying social security recipients EVEN MORE
than they were scheduled to receive has the same effect, however --
their income drops from what it would have been.  Of course, the
government (via the Fed) has long had the option of NOT INFLATING, but
the idea of a government that does not take advantage of its people in
this way seems alien to modern discourse.