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Pepper is being disingenuous when he asserts that Social Security "is an insurance program; it isn't welfare." What insurer can pay annuities so disproportionate to the amount of premiums contributed? The New Deal's concept of Social Security was that it should be the last resort against destitution. It was not intended to be a complete retirement program...
When should an open society resort to covert action...
Eastern Air Lines Flight 855 from Miami International Airport is normally a 30-minute pleasure hop to the resort of Nassau, some 180 miles away. But the trip became a brief waking nightmare for 162 passengers and ten crew members aboard Flight 855 last week. For 50 heart-stopping minutes, they faced possible disaster as their trijet L-1011 aircraft lost power in all three engines and fell almost four miles, to within 4,000 ft. of the Atlantic waves. As trembling passengers fumbled into their life jackets, Pilot Richard Boddy made an ominous announcement...
...military targets as airbases. The European warheads exist for their deterrent value; they could destroy Soviet cities in retaliation for an attack on Britain or France. Says Colonel Jonathan Alford, deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies: "French and British nuclear weapons are essentially weapons of last resort, designed to make it clear to the Soviets that they cannot risk an attack on London or Paris without suffering the destruction of, say, Moscow and Kiev." But if France or Britain ever fired their nukes first, they would leave themselves open to annihilation...
...petitioners have threatened to withhold their May rent in protest of the construction and place it into an account until the matter has been revolved. But Kalb said that even this last resort may be undermined by a University policy of adding rent onto students' term bills