ERD50
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Otherwise I cannot think of a worse thing to dismantle in times like these. For what?
I never indicated that I thought it "should be dismantled in times like these". Where do you get that from?
Breaking promises to those who played by the rules of the game would be disruptive and wrong. However, I think that going forward SS should be completely restructured. I recall posting on this a while back, and no one could succinctly describe just what SS is supposed to do. You can't plan to reach a goal unless you first define it.
That's the problem with most govt programs IMO, they don't really say what the goal is, and they provide no way to measure the results. They just "do something". And it is often counter-productive to some other "do something" program.
-ERD50