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Originally Posted by dippin
The funny thing about these "MY MONEY" rants is that the US has been in deficit for a very long time now, and the main culprits are the military, medicare and social security. In other words, the people outraged at paying other people's welfare checks, etc. aren't actually even paying for the things that they will themselves use (military, ss, medicare).
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A (reduced in size) military is a necessity. Social Security and Medicare are both poorly run government programs that I was given no choice in participating in either. If I had taken the same approximately 12% of my pay that the government has taken, and invested it in my 401K, I would have done at least as well as the government has. And I would have the actual money, not a stack of IOUs.