[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Mikeyali wrote:
100meters wrote:
How bout just leaving it alone, it doesn’t really need much fixing.
Even in the event that you were right about the mathematics of it, it doesn’t take into account the greater evil of Social Security. It makes children and small men out of our society. It breeds dependency amongst the populace. In doing so it propagates demagoguery within the entire political process. In accepting it we allow ourselves to become a willing slave class. But hey, if that works for you…
I’m willing to forgo all my Social Security payouts right now AND still pay my social security taxes until I die if that meant that I could bring about its end while paying out those we have still promised to pay. I’d hate for us to not keep a promise.
mike
I agree completely. We have become a nation of happy serfs, waiting for government to run everything. It never dawns on people that, for ex with SS, they’d have had a lot more money if they could have invested it. FDR tried to get that through but his lib buddies demagogued it out.
Ever read ‘The Report from Iron Mountain’? A nation of serfs…
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We’re generally agreed, but I shudder to credit FDR with much. The man finally tipped us over the edge to socialism. I love when at a time we are fighting a dictator overseas, FDR is a 4 term president. We are fighting National Socialism in Germany while FDR institutes price controls, the TVA, the NRA, ect. Or perhaps while Hitler has jews in concentration camps, FDR decides to put Japanese-Americans in internment camps. The best thing that ever happened in his presidency was his death. He is a fine example of the evils of socialism. He instituted programs that made the citizens dependant upon him, then ran for president nonstop. The citizens voted for their demagogue with the gov’t handouts. Had he not died we would have kept him as president for the rest of his natural life.
mike