Elese,
It's quite possible that a look at Python would be time well spent by you. Python has the advantage that it's very easy to get started with but doesn't get in your way when you want to do more sophisticated things. A programmer with some experience can typically be productive in Python in a day or two.
If you (or anyone) would like some advice or clarification of parts of the program that aren't obvious, I'd be glad to help here or by mail.
Since it's pretty quiet on the python-help list today, I can't let a Perl program be discussed without doing a Python equivalent:
http://www.mondoinfo.com/wc.py
Steve, Matthew: It's our government. It's our tax money. It's allocated by our legislators.
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Being afraid that the Feds are going to turn you out to starve in your old age is like being a little kid who's afraid that his well-to-do parents are going to stop feeding him.
Indeed. That's what I meant when I said that the absence of a meaningful fund is a separate question from the question of whether Social Security will continue to be paid.
The Social Security trust funds won't have anything in them by the time I retire mostly because they don't have anything in them now.
That is, they invest in federal government bonds. Which is one part of the federal government "investing" by lending money to another part. It's as though I saved for my retirement by writing myself an IOU each month.
The money that those bonds yield is from current tax revenue or borrowing. So what's being paid out now comes from what's being taken in now. The idea that there's a meaningful fund is mistaken.
That's a separate question from the question of whether Social Security will continue to be paid. I rather think it will, to one extent or another.
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