>Wouldn't it be better to hammer the point that SS is _not_ an investment
>program, and that talking about "rates of return" is absurd? It seems to
>me that once you start arguing over interest rates, present value and
>all of that you habe implicitly conceded the debate; in the public mind,
>"stock market" and "highest rates of return" are indelibly one and the
>same. And the privatizers have the numbers behind them, at least until
>the bubble bursts.
I generally agree with this, but if they're using wacky numbers, they deserve public ridicule for it.
Doug