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Originally Posted by Willravel
They should be calling for a public option while we on the left are calling for single-payer. Instead, we have fucking morons marching on Washington complaining about the how our Hawaiin president is a secret Kenyan, how Social Security should be privatized, and how taxes, which are at their lowest in generations and lowest among all of our international peers, are somehow too high. I've lost my patience. The Tea Party no longer, in my mind, has permission to exist, and Tea Party members will be treated as such from here on in.
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Unless you are disabled, you have no right to any of my income. This is a vote issue for me, so I will vote against any politician who proposes anything like a public health care option. Let the wealthy socialists and liberals stop being hypocrites and devote their fortunes to helping the poor first.
Social Security should be privatized. FDR was an idiot to implement the Ponzi scheme he created where by law the only investments Social Security can make are in government bonds. I've taken the data from the document the Social Security administration sends me every year and the annual rate of interest on Social Security bonds and roughly computed what the present value of my payments would be. Then using the same 4% of balance figure that I've read should be your rate of withdrawal from a 401K to preserve the fund balance, my Social Security payout should be about 1.5-2x what the SSA tells me it will be
Not only that, but I am not allowed to pass on any remaining balance in my Social Security account as an inheritance even though it was my money that funded that balance.
Finally, I have managed to reach a balance in my 401K in just 15 years that it took me 35 years to reach in Social security.
Taxes are too high. I don't care what other countries taxes are. If you like government handouts, move to a socialist country. The government should be a minimalist provider of services of last resort and should stay out of a lot of stuff it meddles in today. Entitlement programs should be cut. None of you has yet even attempted to explain how the Constitution prohibits that.
If you want to be an ostrich and pretend the Tea Party doesn't exist, that's fine by me. Right now it looks like in about a month they will bring you the hope and change that Obama didn't.
