http://www.mises.org/story/2515
Old-age Security Without the State
By Oskari Juurikkala
Posted on 3/22/2007
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A better solution is to get the state out of old-age security. The trouble is that many people cannot imagine old-age security without the state. This is particularly the case in continental Europe, where few people have private pension plans. To their minds, abolishing existing social security schemes implies millions of people starving to death or freezing out in the cold.
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Unfortunately, that’s exactly what we have with a gooferment system.
People are starving, dying, and unhappy. It’s caused by the gooferment’s intrusion into all facets of our lives. Its taxes, its inflation, and its “insurance” has boxed people into a “prison”. You had those famous tv commercials of “Thelma and Louise” deciding to eat or pay the power bill. The FDA prevents the marketplace from delivering life saving and savings to the consumer to benefit the gooferment, its bureaucrats, and its friends in the big drug companies. It’s “insurance” prevents people from saving their own money, earning after retirement, or passing along the fruits of their labor to their posterity.
The private solutions — family, financial markets, mutual aid societies, charities, and work — are all destroyed by gooferment. The gooferment manipulates us by: taxes, inflation, “laws”, regs, diktats, “insurance”, and propaganda.
Until we shake them off, we’ll never have a truly SECURE retirement in America.
Reinke Faces Life 