An ounce of prevention

[SuperScout]

Some of us may live in areas where dry brush, even drier grasses, and other obviously combustible material form part of the natural flora. And most of us don't have an inexhaustible supply of water to use in fire fighting, if and when that brush were to be ignited as it inevitably will. So the prudent thing to do is to trim back the brush away from our homes, our outbuildings, our outhouses, or any other structures worth saving. We don't have to embark upon a scorched earth policy and clearcut every living piece of flora out there, just enough to protect our property.

And so it might be said about the current condition of Social Security. Do we really have to wait until a roaring brush fire, fanned by the winds of inflation consumes all the structures we spend so long a lifetime building? If we do a little brush clearing now, first by ridding the rolls of all non-citizens as recipients, and then offering personal investment accounts to our youngsters, we can avoid the all consuming brush fire of procrastination.