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TECHNOLOGY: Interesting panel
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POLITICAL: Fixing Arizona using power point?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Stopping the Social Security Ponzi scheme! “Cold turkey”?
Wednesday, May 5, 2010http://cafehayek.com/2010/05/stopping-the-social-security-ponzi-scheme.html
Stopping the social security ponzi scheme
by Russ Roberts on May 4, 2010
in Social Security
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The way to keep social security from bankrupting the country is to make it a welfare program for the elderly. But what about all the money I “contributed”? Alas, that was a lie. The money wasn’t set aside for the future. It’s like asking why don’t I collect food stamps even though I’m rich. Hey, I contributed so I should get food stamps. That’s a bizarre belief to have. That’s not the way food stamps work. That is the way social security is supposed to work, but it’s a bad idea, it was an illusion that your contributions were really yours and there isn’t enough money to keep the illusion going.
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The problem is that the gooferment took the “seed corn” from everyone. They skimmed the “cream” off the top. We could have saved MORE for our own retirement, but they STOLE it early (when the savings would have had more impact) and OFTEN (by inflation eats up savings and raises costs). So everyone to now say “too bad, you’re screwed” is the perpetuation of a fraud and a theft. We didn’t get into this mess in a few years and won’t get out of it in a few years. It was decades. So, like Chile, we need time. <sub 40, recognition bond for contributions payable in 40 years; over 40 below 60, you get some choices; over 60, you get the old plan> And you work your way out.
I pitched a similar idea in the NY Tax Revolt in the 80’s. A twenty year plan to get out of gooferment education at 5% a year. Followed immediately by a twenty year plan, to get out of gooferment funded “education” completely. Forty years, like the time the Jews wandered the desert, gives you time to reeducate people and allow them to adapt to the new realities. Too bad they didn’t adopt it, we’d have been half way out by now. NJ’s education expense is crippling the State.
Paradigms and memes don’t change over night. And, folks have to be able to see the path, where it leads to, and how it can be accomplished with 960 (40 times 12) easy monthly payments of some modest amount gets them to Freedom.
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Upon reflection, this would cause violence in the streets. Only the wealthy could survive this body blow. And, with the gooferment planning to “monetize the debt” (i.e., inflate the currency so it can pay off the debt), those on fixed incomes and retired will be slowly strangled. Think the German pre-WW2 hyperinflation that made Hitler possible.
No, we need an orderly multi-generational way to get form here to there. Peacefully. The Chile solution worked well; why not here?
One problem is they were all illiterate and could ignore the liberal media telling us the gooferment’s propaganda line. We’re too “smart” for our own good. And, the youth propaganda reeducation camps are ensuring continued stupidity!
Argh!
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JOBSEARCH: Myths are killers in job search
Wednesday, May 5, 2010http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/6-myths-that-stand-in-your-way/
6 Myths That Stand In Your Way
April 18th, 2010 by Mark Harrison
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1. Myth: There is time
2. Myth: You can rely on other people
3. Myth: You are important
4. Myth: You should put others before yourself
5. Myth: Conflict should be avoided
6. Myth: The difference between success and failure is LUCK.
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Ahhh, myths, I can relate to this one. I was so … … stupid, lazy, dumb,
Shoulda, coulda, and woulda!
Paradigms are the way we perceive the world (i.e., the JoHari window). Memes, like genes for ideas, are the units of thoughts that transfer and modify behavior.
Myths are a erroneous paradigms and memes.
So is the problem, the difference, that we now perceive them as “wrong”. By what standard?
So we have paradigms and memes that, being wrong, interfere with a successful life and a successful jobsearch.
Some of them that have particularly screwed me up.
1. I believed people. They lied. I acted on those beliefs. And, I did damage that I can’t even know or assess.
2. I “coasted” when it would have been trivial to do the work. Again, another hit that can’t be assessed.
3. I read a mensa piece (i.e., human being owner’s manual) many many moons ago. I thought it was a joke. Little did I know how true it was.
4. I have heard many of the self-help gurus and read many of the self-help texts. Read, but didn’t grok. Preused but didn’t action.
5. I didn’t play the “political game” at my various stops along my career path. Who knows what could have been?
6. I urged people to forgive themselves. I have to do the same. The “more than a year” amnesty. All sins forgiven; not forgotten.
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