Social Security Rx: Performance Enhancement

In his column, Fixes abound, but choosing is tough (3/13/05 Denver Post), John Aloysius Farrell contends that if only all us Puritan’s had adopted the Left’s prescription of “Free Love”, our future worker to retiree ratio in Social Security would be just fine. Farrell even bemoans the fact that our current Conservative Congress would oppose mandating new Federal legislation to accomplish (his) desire for more liberal-social engineering. From where I sit, there’s been no shortage of sex, only a shortage of babies born into America’s work force. If trying to mix social policy with fiscal programs is (his) goal, then perhaps the real question for Aloysius Farrell to ponder is “what shape would the Social Security system be in if our Country hadn’t sanctioned the abortion of 40 million future contributors?”. And by the way John, in general, how would you say that little Roe v. Wade thing is workin’ out so far? Do you like how that miracle of liberal jurisprudence has served to unite all Americans as never before, or like with Social Security, could it be that you, along with millions of others, are just now recognizing that there really is a problem, for which the do-nothing approach is no longer viable?

Caution: If after 40 continuous years of heightened sexual activity, free love and Viagra your society has failed to keep (its) birthrate up, it is recommended to see a doctor of a different political and cultural persuasion than John Aloysius Farrell.