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So, if we discuss hyperinflation we're potential criminals and anarchists? I thought that made us students of history.
Keith
Keith
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On a side note, given the discrepancy of population between baby boomers and gen X and beyond, how do you conservatives view the funneling of SS money from my generation to the old-timers as anything but "wealth redistribution" and "socialism'? Don't you guys hate that stuff?
...Let me explain it in another way—in the simple terms of the family budget. The father of the family is a kindly man, so kindly that he borrows all he can to add to the family's pleasure. At the same time he impresses upon his sons and daughters the necessity of saving for their old age.
Every month they bring 6 per cent of their wages to him so that he may act as trustee and invest their savings for their old age. The father decides that the best investment is his own I O U. So every month he puts aside in a box his I O U carefully executed, and, moreover, bearing interest at 3 per cent.
And every month he spends the money that his children bring him, partly in meeting his regular expenses, and the rest in various experiments that fascinate him.
Years pass, the children grow old, the day comes when they have to open their father's box. What do they find? Roll after roll of neatly executed I O U's.
I am not exaggerating the folly of this legislation. The saving it forces on our workers is a cruel hoax.
Alf Landon, the 1936 Republican presidential nominee, correctly described social security as a "cruel hoax":
Of course, he lost to FDR in a landslide because voters are idiots who vote for the thief who gives them more money, as opposed to honesty and respect for the Constitution.
LOL, the only thing you got out of all the other tax money is endless war and entitlements, what makes you think you should get anything out of your SS tax money? Don't rob younger, poorer people for your retirement just because you are delusional/gullible/stupid enough to believe politicians and their lies.
If you actually planned on retiring on your social security handouts, just off yourself because you're going to starve to death.
I for one know I will never see a dime of the money I've "invested" in SS, and none of my similarly aged friends expect to either.
Just wondering if I am the only one who noticed from the 60 Minutes interviews tonight ....
If a POTUS candidate were to say that future Social Security beneficiaries who were wealthier would get less in SS benefits and poorer folks would get more how would that not be wealth redistribution?
You're welcome Gunfixx. And thank you for posting that.I had set out to prove your posts incorrect.
I spent a good two hours REALLY researching all that you have posted. I read up at your links, and at those refuting the Romney/Ryan plan.
And, I stand corrected.
I don't necessarily like ALL of the Romney/Ryan plan as it stands today, but its a great start and can be dialed in by creative minds.
Thanks!
So far nobody has addressed the idea of wealth redistribution as mentioned by one of the interviewees on the program. Is it or isn't it redistribution?
So far nobody has addressed the idea of wealth redistribution as mentioned by one of the interviewees on the program. Is it or isn't it redistribution?
If it is untenable to shut down Social Security (and I believe for the majority of people it is) then I would again advocate that the taxes you pay go into an account that is owned by you and cannot be touched by the government.