"Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners" - George Carlin
"Education is a system of imposed ignorance" - Noam Chomsky
"Leftists actually think everyone is as stupid as a leftist." - Yakuda
"No, Trump isn't a fascist, tatt boy." - moon
ThatOwlWoman (03-27-2023)
I believe this is what is called the "slippery slope" or argumentum ad absurdum. The extremes of what you perceive is the Left's desire to offset systemic privilege. I don't think even the Left really thinks that we need to be full on Communist "From Each According to His Ability To Each According To His Need" approach.
"Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners" - George Carlin
"Education is a system of imposed ignorance" - Noam Chomsky
"Leftists actually think everyone is as stupid as a leftist." - Yakuda
"No, Trump isn't a fascist, tatt boy." - moon
Guno צְבִי (03-27-2023), ThatOwlWoman (03-27-2023)
Guno צְבִי (03-27-2023), ThatOwlWoman (03-27-2023)
"Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners" - George Carlin
"Education is a system of imposed ignorance" - Noam Chomsky
"Leftists actually think everyone is as stupid as a leftist." - Yakuda
"No, Trump isn't a fascist, tatt boy." - moon
"Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners" - George Carlin
"Education is a system of imposed ignorance" - Noam Chomsky
"Leftists actually think everyone is as stupid as a leftist." - Yakuda
"No, Trump isn't a fascist, tatt boy." - moon
You are pretty close to what I am. I used my survivor benefit from my spouse until I reached full retirement age and switched over. SS is basically an afterthought for me, but it's nice that I don't have to think about healthcare, my Medicare Advantage premium comes out of my payment, and I get a little spending money once a month. I know some people are dependent on SS. Thank God it is in place and we didn't do something stupid like privatize.
Cypress (03-27-2023), Guno צְבִי (03-27-2023), ThatOwlWoman (03-27-2023)
Why? Because the puppet masters behind the GOP know that an aging voter base is a road to party destruction, so they are trying to appeal to younger voters. Younger voters are the ones still working, who are having that 7.65% deducted from each and every paycheck to support the current retirees. There is a lot of resentment among them because they're also being told that when THEY get our age, SS will be bankrupt. They'll supposedly have paid into it their entire working lives with nothing to show for it, according to the pro-privatization gang. One of my own kids has fretted about this. I told her that I've heard the exact same thing all MY life too. Yet here we are, still solvent, and we haven't had to move in with her yet. lol
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Guno צְבִי (03-27-2023)
Cypress (03-27-2023), Guno צְבִי (03-27-2023), ThatOwlWoman (03-27-2023)
Guno צְבִי (03-27-2023), PoliTalker (03-27-2023)
Yakkety-Yuck seems confused as to how SS works. He doesn't seem to understand that benefits are capped once you reach a certain income level. So if the grandma made an average of, say, $150K a year in her working life, she would get the same monthly benefit that Mr. Soros would get. Now if he was a self-employed worker rather than an employee, he also would have paid into the system twice what Grandmother did as an employee. But each would still get the same monthly amount.
This stuff is hard for Reichtards. lol
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Cypress (03-27-2023), Guno צְבִי (03-27-2023)
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