Working together

John Dewey is one of my all time favorite commenters here at the Cafe. He is calm, patient, and reasons superbly.

In commenting on this post where I argued for ending a social security system that taxes nearly everybody in order to give money to nearly everybody, and replacing it with at most, a welfare system for the elderly poor,  he wrote:

Those who are very near retirement (such as me), and who have been promised for four decades that future generations would help fund their retirement...