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Thank goodness I am older and won't have to see what progressives do to this country should the GOP falter. I feel sorry for my libertarian conservative kids serving their country admirably.
Thank goodness the progressives are taking care of you in your old age with their initiation of Social Security and Medicare both of which you enjoy and improve your standard of living in your "older" years.
Thank goodness the progressives are taking care of you in your old age with their initiation of Social Security and Medicare both of which you enjoy and improve your standard of living in your "older" years.
Neither of those things apply to me. So The amount I will receive will probably cover my phone and power bill so I am not resting my retirement on them. I am forced to take Medicare as I have no choice in the matter.
Guy is an idiot. they have been predicting this for at least the 25 years that I have been voting, and the GOP just came off of an apex of power that has not been seen since the civil war.
What he doesn't understand is that something is true in politics until it is not. For example, the midwest votes democrat until they vote for Trump. Irish and Italians vote Democrat until they no longer do.
Because our political system is dialectical, things change when they go bad. All we need is four years of Elizabeth Warren and the abject destruction of the economy that she will bring, and Hispanics, blacks, Asians, women, and millennials will not be able to run to the polls quick enough to vote in another Trump.
Think Carter and Reagan.
But apparently the author does not know that people are capable of changing and learning. Maybe he is racist.
Do you know what the economy was like when Carter go into office. The US was going through stagflation, it was a terrible time for the economy. Fed Chairman Paul Volcker had to raise interest rates to get the inflation in check. It is way more intricate then blaming it simply on Jimmy Carter. What the fed had to do to get inflation in check hurt the economy, but it got us out of the trouble once we got through the recession.
There are quite a few reasons why this stagflation happened, one of the popular reasons is Nixon taking us off of the gold standard and countries rushing to collect their gold value tied with the dollar currency that they were holding.
Thank goodness the progressives are taking care of you in your old age with their initiation of Social Security and Medicare both of which you enjoy and improve your standard of living in your "older" years.
^^^^How old are you anyway? Only someone young would be naive enough to believe that SS and Medicare will give anyone a good standard of living and good medical care If you are relying on both of those things to give you a good standard of living when you retire, you will be in for a rude awakening.
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Originally Posted by redwood66
Neither of those things apply to me. So The amount I will receive will probably cover my phone and power bill so I am not resting my retirement on them. I am forced to take Medicare as I have no choice in the matter.
^^^^Exactly
And, if you aren't yet collecting SS when you turn 65, you are required to pay quarterly premiums to Medicare. Those payments only stop once you start collecting SS.
Reasonably intelligent people realize that it's very difficult to rely solely on SS for retirement income.
Both parties need to break up into 2 or 3 separate parties each.
The GOP needs to be divided into something like:
1. Libertarians (could join the existing Libertarian party)
2. Christian right
3. Moderate conservatives
The dems need to be divided up into something like:
1. Moderate leftists
2. Green party (could join the existing Green party)
3. Social democracy party of some sort, farther left party
Maybe the moderate conservatives and moderate leftists could join together to form a Moderate Party.
Down the road someday, maybe. But right now, there is no ideology at work. It's Trumps vs. anti-Trumps. Nothing else will matter. The author got that right. Once Trump is gone, we may some some realignments, party breakups even. But until then...
For Reps, make neo-Nazis and white supremacists a possible 4th.
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The amount I will receive will probably cover my phone and power bill so I am not resting my retirement on them. I am forced to take Medicare as I have no choice in the matter.
If you are relying on both of those things to give you a good standard of living when you retire, you will be in for a rude awakening.
