The "well" is "us". We contribute a part of what we earn to a fund. The fund is invested in "us" the prosperity of the country. It's collective. I guess you could call it socialism. But the idea is to share in the wealth. The well never runs dry in such situation.
I worked 16 years for a US company and 17 years for a French company and part of my pension comes from France, a country I like, believe it or not. Their social system is functioning pretty well, even tho it is bankrupt. The thing is that 1 of every 4 French university graduates will never have a job in his lifetime. How do you cope with that statistic? And what does it mean?
Heard of Walmart? That's part of it. Sort of a disease. Like the second coming of the Industrial Revolution.
Lot of things going on in the politcal area that I do not comprehend. Esecially in the USA. This guy Dick Cheney is a former CEO of a corporation that is one of the biggest winners of $18 billion in contracts for reconstruction in Iraq. Meanwhile, the US taxpayers are paying $200 billion of their tax dollars for this folly. Why? Well, seems pretty obviious to me. Now, how do you reconcile examples like this with domestic concerns about health care and retirment benfits?
Exxon is another phenomenon behind the Iraq thing. It's a patchwork of all kinds of twisted financial interests.
If you look back at US Political activities during the past 50-100 years, things begin to be obvious. Pitty they don't teach history anymore in shcool. Well, real history.
