CounterRevolutionary wrote:
Well, we many not agree on the term "entitlement" of which you have every right to define it in better terms than Congress does, that's OK with me.
The presumption that the public was incapable of planning for its retirement and the government would step in and do it for us because Congress was more competent, is laughable, now the "watchamacallit FICA retirement tax" is $100 $Trillion in debt of unfunded liabilities, not to mention the $600 trillion unfunded liabilities of Medicare. I certainly do not want to be entitled to that!
FDR & Co. never intended SS as anything other than a tax. It was called a "benefit" as a way to flavor the kool aid. The only
reason the charade continues is that too many people (me included) are strung out. To stop telling the lie would be too
disruptive to the power structure. Gid forbid the villagers remember where their torches and pitchforks are!
As far as my 401K, of course, it is not an "entitlement," because is comes from the private sector and my free choice to participate in operating it.
It's not simply "big oil, military and corporations" that are usurping our money, these guys are small potatoes compared to the world economy we subsidize. All nations do not manufacture equally, considering time = money.
But the Progressives view the masses as equal across the globe, where one hour of labor as equivalent to another's hour of labor, no matter who it is. We know this is wrong. Americans produce much more every day; we work harder, longer and smarter. That's why we have a higher standard of living and should make more money. But mysteriously, that money is being honed down.
This is where the Federal Reserve Banks come in, printing endless reams of funny-money and disbursing it around the world, devaluing our dollar to a dime, while propping up every banana republic on earth that should have collapsed half a century ago. We are enslaved to subsidizing this despotism by these Progressive Democrats and old CFR boys operating the Fed's printing presses.
Ever since "Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution," America has financed the rise of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao and the Iranian Ayatollahs, prolonging these monstrous governments that eat their own citizens. Why? In the end, we will all be razed to the lowest common denominator, making a peso an hour, if the Federal Reserve has its way.
We agree that in the long run, nobody has profited off this; human progress has been held back thousands of years. Yes, the wars are awful, and we little Americans are being used. How can we fix this?
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