There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away. ~Emily Dickinson
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. ~Neil Gaiman
Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in. ~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The road to hell is paved with adverbs. ~Stephen King
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ~Mark Twain
I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. ~Walter Tevis
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. ~George R.R. Martin
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redheadedfemme
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Date: 9/12/11 12:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 9/12/11 02:34 am (UTC)Ponzi schemes depend on garnering an ever-increasing pool of new investors to pay out returns to prior investors. When the potential pool of new investors runs dry, they collapse. This will occur when the scheme runs up against the natural limits of its recruitment strategy; in the ultimate case, it can't keep going past the point where the entire population is already subscribed.
In this case, everyone making $106,000 a year and under pays into Social Security. This limit has been in effect for decades--meaning all the eligible population has been reached--and the program keeps plugging along. Yours and my taxes flow in, benefits flow out.
If the wage limit was increased to include everybody--all the way up to Warren Buffett and Bill Gates--the program would be set to pay out benefits forever.
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Date: 9/13/11 01:51 am (UTC)