Of lawn sprinklers and Social Security

[Tom Lehman]

Carl---The Gdansk bit says to me, that things change, but, always remain
the same.  The same communists that ran old Poland, now run new Poland
only under a different brand name.  I think Wojtek would agree with me
on this analysis and he should know.

If we privatize Social Security, which as von Hoffman sees happening
regardless of which Gorebush wins, this is a real break with a rational
and successful past.  A real systemic change.

Now if von Hoffman's analogy means that privatization will only result
in a re-socialization in the future.  Then shouldn't we ask at what cost
and when.  A new Dark Age, even a short one would be miserable.  But,
then as someone said, "in the end we are all dead."

Tom