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I would love to see SSI, Medicare and the Department of Education removed. It is not under the authority of the Federal government to institute such.
But lets be honest, the above post is a lie, it is propaganda designed to influence stupid people.
Are you people stupid? Progressives think you are.
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Originally Posted by steven_h
THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ x10
Bully for you both^^ Because you can fend for yourself. Problem is over 85% of American's can. Me thinks you wish to go back to pre-Wall Street Crash of the 30's. That when only the Rich thrived and the rest of America were starving!! Love it when entitled ones show their true colours
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Originally Posted by lifeexplorer
This has to be the most ignorant post.
I stand corrected. This is more ignorant.
You my dearest belong right along with the first two quoted posters
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Originally Posted by T-310
Don't need Medicare.
Daughter goes to parochial school.
And I don't pay into social security.
Win win.
Bully for you!! Lucky Ducky.. so glad you lived under the protection of such a wonderful umbrella of $$$ that protected you from harsh reality of living day to day! Most Don't!!
When will the elitist realize that without the workers who struggle everyday to make ends meet area the ones who actually PUT all those dollars and profits into their pockets?? Without them, your $$ will be worthless! Worthless because without $$ spent into the economy that purchases products and services.. You rich types will go bankrupt pretty quick!!
Most of you were NOT around back in the 1930's... but I was brought up by parents who were.. so learned just how and why working class were directly affected by out of control Elitists who crashed the world economy of those days! In fact, the pre-crash times reflect precisely the attitudes I'm reading here!!
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Great Depression in 1930s
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the 1930s. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; however, in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century.
Great Depression - Wikipedia
Funny but I know owners of many small businesses that had to close up shop due to over regulating, changes to those regulations on a yearly basis costing them money to update yet again, the ACA, tax increases ect...
I'm sure the liberals won't lose sleep over 50-100 individuals losing their jobs at small companies due to these things - but at least Trump is moving in the right direction and hopefully people will again feel confident to start up new businesses.
Yeah, near us, there are a couple of small businesses who have tried starting up and closed quickly. They didn't understand how their type of business works, expected to be able to take money back out immediately, and expected stuff like lots of customers with no advertising, signage, or even a working phone. One of them even left the signage of the previous failed business, so hardly anyone stopped in because they thought it was still the prior lousy business that had failed a few months before they moved in.
The failures were due to the lack of understanding on the part of the owners, not because of regulation. No amount of changing or removing regs is going to make people smarter about starting and running businesses.
Are you the poster who plans to sell his airplane if they has a medical emergency?
No, T-310's got a trust fund. Apparently he thinks everyone else does too. He simply cannot grasp the fact that everyday life for most people isn't like it is in his world where the money is just handed to him without any effort on his part.
Amazing how after all these years the corporate elite can still convince their voters via their Republican puppets that lowering the corporate tax rate across the board is the solution to the problem of economic growth, when there is nothing over the past four decades of reducing taxes on the 1 percent that demonstrates a positive trickle down effect.
Giving more money to the richest members of society does however give them more money to buy elections, buy judges, buy politicians, buy think tanks, media institutions, and change not only the narrative of economic reality, but shift massively the relative power of organized capital vs. backpeddling defensive and largely deciminated/disorganized labor.
So while corporations continue merging and acquiring and lobbying for their additional sources of crony capitalist funding, the average worker bee in the global and domestic economy is left wondering, can I ever get a break from the monotony of working more and more for less and less in the new Golden Age of Rule by the Predatory Capitalism of the 1 percent?
You said it far better than I ever could. This is exactly correct.
Hell, even this Trump supporter thinks that's propaganda (to suggest the Repubs want to end any of that stuff).
Have you noticed that the surplus at the beginning of the Bush administration became incredible deficits by the end of that same administration. Those deficits didn't magically end on Obama's inauguration. The Bush recession was just getting under way at that point as well as the war deficits.
The beauty of the Republican plan is to do this without getting the blame. In spite of figures to the contrary, they blame the Democrats for the deficits. Take a look at the deficit stats in the video in post #1.
Many of you look at Social Security as a ponzi scheme. Many of you would like to have private accounts where you manage your investments. That doesn't always work out. Life may show you how some economic calamity could wipe out half your savings.
How many of you have a degree in finance? Trump just signed an executive order relieving your financial manager of a fiduciary obligation. What if the government decides that the way out of a monster deficit is to induce hyper inflation? You will be so busy dodging problems at work that you won't notice that your retirement savings are reduced to the value of a Mercedes C class. Try to live on that for 20 years.
Watch the video. That graph near the beginning is accurate.
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