<THE GREAT PONZI-SCHEME RESCUE ACT OF 1999

Rolling Stone, Apr. 15, '99 by P. J. O'Rourke, Cato Institute's Mencken research fellow.

Funny, but completely accurate.

Anyone who can't see that our current Social Security system is a house of cards being held up solely for the benefit of politicians is either avoiding thinking about it (probably a majority), is not capable of forming the concepts required to think about it (hopefully not a very large number), or are part of the problem (i.e. people hoping to gain political power by exploiting the elderly.)

If you did read this article, or just about anything intelligent on the subject, you shouldn't fall into the first category any more unless the whole thing went in one ear and out the other. If you fall into one of the other two categories, feel free to dive in, but don't expect me to be very sympathetic.