Toronado3800
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- Nov 15, 2009
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Social Security is here because folks decline too slowly in their last years before death and invest too poorly in their working years on average. I wouldn't care about seeing a bunch of broke homeless old ppl begging outside of our football stadiums on Sundays. I care more about my relatives having no income to live off of after they turn 70 and start moving in with each other. Some of them would be able to guilt me into helping, maybe and then not have a social security check to sign over to me after they move into my house!
Healthcare, ug.
What do we do? Trash our current "closest socialized system" and let the cancer patients die broken w/o homes in our front yards? That amazing $10,000 a year wonder drug for disease "X" is something we're all going to want when we need it. Every year there are new expensive treatments just to extend life a few months or years longer.
In an ideal world folks would give enough to charity to help them. Then again in an ideal world after human nature is changed pure socialism and capitalism would both work. I'm not holding my breath.
Folks need a couple reasons to give. 1, it makes them feel good. 2, the guy with the kettle and bell is making them feel guilty. 3, Uncle Sam has guns and prisons if you don't help the poor by paying taxes.
Healthcare, ug.
What do we do? Trash our current "closest socialized system" and let the cancer patients die broken w/o homes in our front yards? That amazing $10,000 a year wonder drug for disease "X" is something we're all going to want when we need it. Every year there are new expensive treatments just to extend life a few months or years longer.
In an ideal world folks would give enough to charity to help them. Then again in an ideal world after human nature is changed pure socialism and capitalism would both work. I'm not holding my breath.
Folks need a couple reasons to give. 1, it makes them feel good. 2, the guy with the kettle and bell is making them feel guilty. 3, Uncle Sam has guns and prisons if you don't help the poor by paying taxes.