This is incredibly messed up.
So why does everyone seem to put up with it?
Are some people trying to make a slave state out of the other people or what?
Generational warfare
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This is incredibly messed up.
So why does everyone seem to put up with it?
Are some people trying to make a slave state out of the other people or what?
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4 responses to “Generational warfare”
SS was a scam from the start.
When it began, you retired at 65 and the life expectancy was around 63 so it was a pyramid scheme where most of the people would die before they got any money.
Now, it’s a scare tactic by the Dems and their media arm. Recall Bush tried to do something and that was pretty much the only thing, besides immigration ‘reform’, where he failed.
Old people vote much more than young so anybody trying to do something about it can expect Minitrue to viciously attack them, recall the commercials with Paul Ryan shoving wheelchair-bound grandma over a cliff.
On the plus side, we’re so boned this is really just a making some more rubble to be bounced.
We’re going more than a $trillion deeper in debt every year. That is unsustainable. Our debt is already 25% more than GDP and doing nothing but going up.
Invest in steel, wood, lead and smokeless powder (preferably already assembled). Those are the only assets that will go dramatically up in value.
social security was brought in to protect the upper classes from revolution by bismarck in germany. Roosevelt did it here for same reason in 1932 communist party isa got over a million votes and people in kansas and iowa were storing food in their basements for the coming communist revolution. The social welfare state is to protect you from ending up in a ditch with a bullet in your head when you get stopped at the road block. Military protect you wrong! Soldiers lead the revolution and officer stay clear or killed. So no matter how hard you scene to end up in a ditch the social welfare state protects you from yourself. Otto von bismarck knew what he was doing!
Are some people trying to make a slave state out of the other people or what?
Yes, but not because of Social Security alone, or even the various welfare programs and assorted scams. Sarah Palin had part of it nailed in her 2011 Iowa speech:
Yeah, the permanent political class – they’re doing just fine. Ever notice how so many of them arrive in Washington, D.C. of modest means and then miraculously throughout the years they end up becoming very, very wealthy? Well, it’s because they derive power and their wealth from their access to our money – to taxpayer dollars. They use it to bail out their friends on Wall Street and their corporate cronies, and to reward campaign contributors, and to buy votes via earmarks. There is so much waste. And there is a name for this: It’s called corporate crony capitalism. This is not the capitalism of free men and free markets, of innovation and hard work and ethics, of sacrifice and of risk. No, this is the capitalism of connections and government bailouts and handouts, of waste and influence peddling and corporate welfare. This is the crony capitalism that destroyed Europe’s economies. It’s the collusion of big government and big business and big finance to the detriment of all the rest – to the little guys. It’s a slap in the face to our small business owners – the true entrepreneurs, the job creators accounting for 70% of the jobs in America, it’s you who own these small businesses, you’re the economic engine, but you don’t grease the wheels of government power.
http://sarahpac.com/posts/governor-palins-speech-at-the-restoring-america-tea-party-of-america-rally-in-indianola-iowa-video-and-transcript
The Crony Capitalism that she referenced extends well beyond DC, and is part of the ideology of both political parties. They call it free trade. Most favored trade status, free trade blocks, government guaranteed loans, all greasing the movement of industry after industry overseas and south of the border. And who benefits? The Walton family for starters, but also every owner and investor in Home Depot, Lowe’s, Niki, etc. ad nauseam.
The younger generation that you feel sorry for because of Social Security taxes have no fucking jobs. They are borrowing for college and indenturing themselves for a future of more of the same.
Despite a lot of talk and articles written about reshoring — bringing production back to the United States — offshore outsourcing of manufacturing and service-sector jobs to foreign nations continues to plague the American economy.
Hundreds of major American corporations are shipping thousands of jobs overseas, according to an analysis of Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) filings made to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration on behalf of the displaced workers.
http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/TAA0731131.html
Read the list.
The people benefiting from this are a small group of wealthy investors, and genius code writers in Santa Clara and San Francisco, the Google wonderkind and their ilk, the political class, and academia. A society of master’s and slaves. Plato’s ideal society brought to fruition.
That is a bit of an exaggeration.
1. People over 65 have less debt. They better. There is no way you are going to be able to retire if you have a mortgage that requires 2/3 or more of your income. Ditto car loans, student debt, (yours or your kids) whatever.
2. They have more assets. No Duh. It takes TIME to acquire assets. Savings isn’t an instant-gratification kind of activity.
Sure there are problems, but crying about the 1% vs the 99% isn’t going to help. No matter which side of the political divide is doing the crying.