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- From: erc@netcom.com (Eric Smith)
- Subject: Re: Getting rich -- this is no joke!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.061435.3402@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1016@rc1.vub.ac.be> <1i56riINNg3b@athena.sdsu.edu> <1993Jan3.001640.16834@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 06:14:35 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.001640.16834@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger) writes:
- >U.S. social security is not a pyramid scheme; it's a Ponzi scheme
- >(i.e., pay off the early investors with money received from later
- >investors).
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- Social security is not quite the same thing as a Ponzi scheme. When
- people discover the truth about a Ponzi scheme, they stop investing,
- and it comes to a sudden end. People have already discovered the truth
- about social security, but it shows no signs of ending.
-