How about a definition: Fixed game is a system that is inherently unfair.

I am open to a better definition.

Social Security -Fixed games often begin with noble sounding justifications. SS check. -SS was sold as a temporary program. -Later SS(in the official literature) was billed as a retirement program. -At one time there was in fact a trust fund. -In the 70's the politicians decided all that money sitting there untouched was somehow wrong. I suppose they thought, 'why our whole economy is run on a baseless currency, why not run SS on IOU's, who'll notice, it's America the economy is always going to outgrow what we need even though we are discouraging large families and thus the population base necessary to sustain one of our earlier premises'. -Those noble men and woman who have only the nations best interest in mind, study after study supports that, pissed away huge sums of forced savings that would in large messure have made all the scare tactics surrounding SS of the past 20 years unnecessary. But then they couldn't promise us they were fixing the problem, again, if they hadn't. -Now Alan Greenspan is saying the payout age is going to be raised and that the nation IS NOT going to be able to keep all those noble promises for SS, OR for Medicaid(or is it Medicare-one of the two, probably both in the end).

-Why is that a fixed game? Because the little people who trusted the egg headsin Wahington who made all the promises aren't suffering the same fate as the promise makers. The politicians exempted themselves from SS deductions; they have a separate retirement program that undoubtedly won't go unfunded; and they medical benefits that are what, decidedly better than the average working man's.

-Who will be held accountable? WHO? that's what I thought.

-Did you know you only have to serve 5 years in congress to be vested in the Federal retirement system? Do you suppose that promotes the we got ours insiderism seductions we so often hear about DC?

-Now I know this will disqualify all I've written before from having any merit but, does it bother anybody that a SS type system is one of the primary planks of the communist manifesto?

db offered the classic example(thanks for helping out the less articulate:) Being serious db, thanks, wish I could have explained so well.

http://www.dbinfosource.com/board/19558