@pretorious700 - So you're ok with losing all the SS money that's been taken out of your paycheck for your entire working life? How about the socialization of all the risk and privatization of all the profit on Wall Street, or the socialization of the cost of tax breaks for the super-rich? Or, as I also mentioned, the fact that most understand that SS should be counted on as the only source of retirement income and have planned accordingly? The "tough shit" stance is nonsensical politics.
Completely agreed. Most of the folks who talk about either doing away with or privatizing SS have no idea what it's like to live day to day like most of us, or better yet, they have no idea what it's like to never be able to find gainful employment no thanks to a disability I was born with. They are the clueless FYIGM generation.
Social security is by definition socialism. People should save and invest for their retirement. If they don't, tough shit.
pretorious700 5 months ago
@pretorious700 - So you're ok with losing all the SS money that's been taken out of your paycheck for your entire working life? How about the socialization of all the risk and privatization of all the profit on Wall Street, or the socialization of the cost of tax breaks for the super-rich? Or, as I also mentioned, the fact that most understand that SS should be counted on as the only source of retirement income and have planned accordingly? The "tough shit" stance is nonsensical politics.
jperryam 5 months ago
@jperryam sorry, should have said "should NOT be counted on"...
jperryam 5 months ago
Completely agreed. Most of the folks who talk about either doing away with or privatizing SS have no idea what it's like to live day to day like most of us, or better yet, they have no idea what it's like to never be able to find gainful employment no thanks to a disability I was born with. They are the clueless FYIGM generation.
Homer177 5 months ago
The fake wars are the real Ponzi money schemes. By definition, they destroy money.
saadasim 5 months ago
@saadasim Agr33d but what whats the solution?
acedagaiin 5 months ago
@acedagaiin 1. Take back the government from the corporations. 2. Bring our troops home. 3. Send the neocons instead to fight!
saadasim 5 months ago