my body cannot keep up with physical exertion for any period of time anymore.
Chuck.I feel a smidgen of your pain.
the ponzi scheme is true in that thats where it started.. but the actual 'fall' of that pyramid was the sept '08 wall street failure.. when that happened, every one including states (and some countries) lost everything..
Yet
they want you (and you, and you and even you!) to trust your money with
them to invest in a post-apocapytical newly risen stock market. That's cool, but
they want to do it (again) under the same rules as before...or in this age of deregulation, even fewer rules! I'm glad that at the ripe young age of 53 I won't be around in forty years to see the millions and millions of poor crowding the non-governmental-funded poor houses, clamboring for a bowl of rice or a sip of water to subsist one more miserable day in pain and suffering.
if anyone seriously wants 'reform' and there really is a SS crisis.. they have to start with current recipients.. anything less is just pandering to get votes and make believe..
WTF! (I almost typed
BITCH! in there but we don't call names over here) 1. Repeat after me: "There is no Social Security crisis." Now go find a blackboard and write that phrase down 1000 times. As much as
they want to convince the lemmings Social Security is at Defcon level 6, it ain't true. If
they keep their greedy paws off it it, we'll have thirty or so years to come up with a reasonable fix to ensure solvency for future generations.
(and I don't mean starting with Chuck.. I mean starting with Warren Buffet. He and anyone else of a certain income level, should not get any retirement benefits like SS/Medicare.. and in the case of McCain, and vets of that kind of wealth, they shouldn't get VA benefits either. It doesn't hurt those kinds of people to lose their benefits, even if they 'earned' them.. because they have 17 homes,45 cars and billions in the bank.. but it does hurt Chuck or even Howie to lost their benefits just to keep Buffet and McCain on the gov't teet)
Oh. OK. I apologize for my previous outburst. The raging mo liberal in me hates, hates, hates! that any disabled veteran or retiree be denied their pension or disability. As I've stated before, they've worked all their lifes to make our country what it is today and safe today.
Yet, the reasonable mo liberal in me agrees, and has stated numerous times before, these people like Buffet and McCain don't need their Social Security and VA benefits. I cannot fathom Buffet waiting hours in his Medicare-approved Doctor's waiting room to get his prostate checked by a Doctor with
WAAAAY TOO BIG HANDS (that's another story
) or see McCain schlep to the local VAOPC to get his Alzheimer's medicine refilled and sit in the lobby nodding his head ever-so-slightly left and right focusing on nothing with his beady eyes for three hours while it is filled.
They don't have to. Let them make the sacrifice. The Chuck's and Howey's and millions of others out there trying to live day to day on that proverbial cup of rice and sip of water have done enough. We've sacrificed already...just the 3% last year and 3% this year we didn't see in a Social Security COLA is near-devastating in these days of 4% inflation.
Let
them, the rich who were never affected by a 4% loss here or there, sacrifice.
