Citizen Magda
We got Magda's Social Security card in the mail yesterday. It's strange seing her name (without the hachek, of course) on that little green card. It's not like she's going to be getting much out of it by the time she's retiring, but it does remind me that we better start saving for college (I have only memorized my SSN because UT used it as my student ID -- ah, the sweet, innocent days before the age of identity theft).
So now that my little tax deduction -- er, I mean "daughter" -- has her own Social Security Number, I think I'm starting to understand those sleepless nights. Or is it coincidence that the last three digits of her SSN are 666?
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I think whether little Magda will be getting anything out of Social Security is strongly dependent on whether our fellow citizens make the right choice this coming week. If the idiots voting for Georgie outnumber (ok, approximately) the rest of us, I'm afraid you're right. With Kerry, however, there is at least a chance that the current system will be preserved.
In case there are any idiots in my own family, I would point out here to them that if it hadn't been for the Social Security system, which the Republicans have been dead set against ever since its inception in 1933 and, their sweet words notwithstanding, would gladly kill any way they can (can you say "privatized SS"?), our own family would most likely been split up and scattered to the four winds when our father died in 1965. This was the common outcome of large families with no remaining support before 1933. One can read of trains filled with orphans heading out West from the large Eastern cities in the early part of the 20th century. At each stop some of them would be adopted by the local farmers. Vote Republican and we'll soon see such things in the early 21st century.