Mr.Ehrig,
are you claiming that more employed persons in the US have higher wages
plus benefits (more people have access to health insurance, for instance)
and that the total value of wages +benefits has gone up?
Where is this information to be found?
Is the insecurity of the Social Security system (Secretary of Dep. of Labor
stated that young Americans should begin saving for their retirement due
to the potential failure of the Social Security system sometime in the
mid-21st century) fuelling private pension schemes?
If this is true, than the qualms over Medicare and Social Security cuts
are needless, and we should all just sit back and enjoy our medical
insurance, pensions and long vacations.