Comments on: Quote of the Day http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5250.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:24:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Shannon Love http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5250.html/comment-page-1#comment-116690 Shannon Love Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:15:08 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5250.html#comment-116690 Difference in life expectancy between groups raises the question of whether Social security payouts should be the same. Everyone more or less works and therefor contributes for the same span but all do not live as long past retirement age. In effect, the short lived get a much lower rate of return than do the long lived. Since life expectancy maps onto various ethnic groups or other types of collections, it raises real issues of fairness for one-size-fits-all compulsory government programs. If Social Security were a Rightist program the Left would call it racist. Its another good reason to personalize retirement to some degree. That way, at least people who die younger as a group can at least leave something behind for their families. Now a person who pays into Social Security for 45 years and then dies unexpectedly at 64 leaves nothing to his family but someone who saves privately over the same period leaves a great deal. Difference in life expectancy between groups raises the question of whether Social security payouts should be the same. Everyone more or less works and therefor contributes for the same span but all do not live as long past retirement age. In effect, the short lived get a much lower rate of return than do the long lived. Since life expectancy maps onto various ethnic groups or other types of collections, it raises real issues of fairness for one-size-fits-all compulsory government programs.

If Social Security were a Rightist program the Left would call it racist.

Its another good reason to personalize retirement to some degree. That way, at least people who die younger as a group can at least leave something behind for their families. Now a person who pays into Social Security for 45 years and then dies unexpectedly at 64 leaves nothing to his family but someone who saves privately over the same period leaves a great deal.

]]> By: Don http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5250.html/comment-page-1#comment-116604 Don Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:46:30 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5250.html#comment-116604 And do they correlate the priority of education as an integral part of the family culture in each of the "Eight Americas"? And do they correlate the priority of education as an integral part of the family culture in each of the “Eight Americas”?

]]> By: Ginny http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5250.html/comment-page-1#comment-116459 Ginny Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:56:01 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5250.html#comment-116459 And then there's the boy problem - <a href="http://aldaily.com/" rel="nofollow">A&L</a> links to <a href="http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=FAEB4508-E7F2-99DF-329AA2F69CCB6D5C" rel="nofollow">Scientific American.</a> And then there’s the boy problem – A&L links to Scientific American.

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