Government power is one cause of the president's demise.

[JoeB131]

Yeah, 40 years i have paid into Social Security, havent taken it yet, but i know scumbags who never paid a dime, but get it anyway...

Your anecdotes are always... amusing. Do you have any numbers to back that up?

 

[Ray9]

I confess that I get a Social Security check. That was a deal made before I was born. I and many others were deceptively led to believe that funds were set aside for our old age, like a pension. It is like the gold that is supposedly stored at Fort Knox. We know now that no money is sitting in a pot in our names.

The US dollar is the world's reserve currency. That is how they get away with much of what they are doing. They just keep printing paper with pictures of patriotic historical figures on them.

One day this will not be so and it could happen faster than anyone can imagine. You could go to a gas station and suddenly your credit card will not work. This is when we find out that the dollar is worth less than Confederate money.

Yeah, 40 years i have paid into Social Security, havent taken it yet, but i know scumbags who never paid a dime, but get it anyway...

The program was expanded during our "golden age" of big government.

 

[B. Kidd]

The most troubling thing is that while the size, scope and expense of government is increasing the two major political parties are nothing but proxies for the big money interests that really run the country

Uh Ray. In case you haven't noticed, we've already passed the crossroads.
There are 20,000 troops in D.C. for an inauguration with state Capital lockdown, Big Tech censorship, and job blacklisting for anyone supporting Trump. This is already beyond a crossroads!

 

[Gdjjr]

Trump lost because of who he is and what he did.

This victimology is getting pretty old.

Do you feel you'll be treated better?
Will you get paid higher wages?
Will you be more free to exercise your liberty?
Do you feel being on the side of tyranny makes you a better person?
Do you think (I know that's extremely difficult for you and you might need to wait on a talking point from your betters) life will be better?
Do you feel, if it comes down to the nut cutting your nuts won't be cut because you're on their side?


Or anything you believe will be different-

 

[Gdjjr]

Here's why Social Security is a problem- because it's been a success.

It's a Ponzi scheme- successful, perhaps. That depends on the interpretation.

 

[Mac1958]

Trump lost because of who he is and what he did.

This victimology is getting pretty old.

Do you feel you'll be treated better?
Will you get paid higher wages?
Will you be more free to exercise your liberty?
Do you feel being on the side of tyranny makes you a better person?
Do you think (I know that's extremely difficult for you and you might need to wait on a talking point from your betters) life will be better?
Do you feel, if it comes down to the nut cutting your nuts won't be cut because you're on their side?


Or anything you believe will be different-

We have removed the terrorists' leader.

Then we'll hold the Democrats accountable.

Holding your own side accountable: Something someone like you wouldn't understand.

 

[Gdjjr]

Trump’s demise was solely the consequence of his arrogance, incompetence, corruption, and dishonesty.

Do you feel you'll be treated better?
Will you get paid higher wages?
Will you be more free to exercise your liberty?
Do you feel being on the side of tyranny makes you a better person?
Do you think (I know that's extremely difficult for you and you might need to wait on a talking point from your betters) life will be better?
Do you feel, if it comes down to the nut cutting your nuts won't be cut because you're on their side?


Or anything you believe will be different-

 

[Gdjjr]

We have removed the terrorists' leader.

Then we'll hold the Democrats accountable.

Holding your own side accountable: Something someone like you wouldn't understand.

LOL- right- you understand what you want to see- Period.

 

[Lesh]

Trump lost because of who he is and what he did.

This victimology is getting pretty old.

Full stop

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Trump lost because of who he is and what he did.

This victimology is getting pretty old.

Well, looks like somebody learned something new in 3rd grade "Bad Man Orange Class" today

 

[Mac1958]

Trump lost because of who he is and what he did.

This victimology is getting pretty old.

Well, looks like somebody learned something new in 3rd grade "Bad Man Orange Class" today

Too complicated for ya, huh? Too bad. I'm done consorting with terrorists.

 

[B. Kidd]

Trump lost because of who he is and what he did.

This victimology is getting pretty old.

Do you feel you'll be treated better?
Will you get paid higher wages?
Will you be more free to exercise your liberty?
Do you feel being on the side of tyranny makes you a better person?
Do you think (I know that's extremely difficult for you and you might need to wait on a talking point from your betters) life will be better?
Do you feel, if it comes down to the nut cutting your nuts won't be cut because you're on their side?


Or anything you believe will be different-

We have removed the terrorists' leader.

Then we'll hold the Democrats accountable.

Holding your own side accountable: Something someone like you wouldn't understand.

The only terrorists right now are a Dimm led Gov't whose main purpose is to avoid accountability for 'Crossfire Hurricane' and to quash the Durham Investigation.
They went so far as to hijack an election to avoid accountability if you want REAL honesty for a minute!

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Too complicated for ya, huh? Too bad. I'm done consorting with terrorists.

Meh.....Useful Idiots like yourself are just easy targets

Ah, that means you'd need to drop all your best friends. Just do it.

How's the weather in Bejing this morning, comrade?

 

[Gdjjr]

Too complicated for ya, huh? Too bad. I'm done consorting with terrorists.

It's only going to get worse, stupid- you know, darkest just before the storm-

 

[Ray9]

Trump's real crime in the eyes of the government what that he was impeding the flow of new Americans across borders to make the numbers work. The upper classes in America are not willing to give up any wealth to save the republic.

Consider the Affordable Care Act. As incomes drop in the heath care field, fewer of the best and brightest will go into medicine. Skills will decline and only the rich will be able to afford the best care.

This is classic bad government producing the opposite effect of what it is trying to do.

 

[B. Kidd]

Trump's real crime in the eyes of the government what that he was impeding the flow of new Americans across borders to make the numbers work. The upper classes in America are not willing to give up any wealth to save the republic.

Consider the Affordable Care Act. As incomes drop in the heath care field, fewer of the best and brightest will go into medicine. Skills will decline and only the rich will be able to afford the best care.

This is classic bad government producing the opposite effect of what it is trying to do.

Yeah. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was against him. This is part of it, but not the main part.

 

[Ray9]

Trump's real crime in the eyes of the government what that he was impeding the flow of new Americans across borders to make the numbers work. The upper classes in America are not willing to give up any wealth to save the republic.

Consider the Affordable Care Act. As incomes drop in the heath care field, fewer of the best and brightest will go into medicine. Skills will decline and only the rich will be able to afford the best care.

This is classic bad government producing the opposite effect of what it is trying to do.

Yeah. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was against him. This is part of it, but not the main part.

The US Chamber of Commerce no longer represents business on a grassroots level. It is a public relations agency for big corporations claiming to be "people".

 

[Blues Man]

The most troubling thing is that while the size, scope and expense of government is increasing the two major political parties are nothing but proxies for the big money interests that really run the country

Naw, man, the biggest problem is that we want government to do all this stuff, but we don't want to pay for it or be even slightly inconvenienced.

You see, it used to be that party labels didn't mean as much as they do now. You had liberal "Gypsy Moth" Republicans in the North and conservative "Boll Weevil" Democrats in the South. Then someone decided that giving money directly to politicians was kind of bad and stuff, and limited donations to $1000. Which wasn't so bad in 1974, when you could buy a car for $1000, but not so much now.

So politicians became more and more dependent on their parties, and straying from the party line became more and more difficult.

Then they had the brilliant idea to limit the amount of money parties get, so the funding got diverted into PACs and advocacy groups.

If you want to really get rid of the influence money has on politics, that's simple enough.

1) Declare that Corporations aren't people and can't contribute
2) Limit election season to only a few months, instead of dragging it out for years.
3) Make terms of Representatives 4 years instead of 2 so they aren't constantly needing to raise money.

The parties have evolved into entities that are detrimental to the country.

And there are plenty of big money individual donors to political parties and they're the ones that run the parties.

We should have term limits on all elected government positions and we should disallow all foreign contributions to political parties and for no money from out of state for candidates running for Congress

 

[B. Kidd]

The most troubling thing is that while the size, scope and expense of government is increasing the two major political parties are nothing but proxies for the big money interests that really run the country

Naw, man, the biggest problem is that we want government to do all this stuff, but we don't want to pay for it or be even slightly inconvenienced.

You see, it used to be that party labels didn't mean as much as they do now. You had liberal "Gypsy Moth" Republicans in the North and conservative "Boll Weevil" Democrats in the South. Then someone decided that giving money directly to politicians was kind of bad and stuff, and limited donations to $1000. Which wasn't so bad in 1974, when you could buy a car for $1000, but not so much now.

So politicians became more and more dependent on their parties, and straying from the party line became more and more difficult.

Then they had the brilliant idea to limit the amount of money parties get, so the funding got diverted into PACs and advocacy groups.

If you want to really get rid of the influence money has on politics, that's simple enough.

1) Declare that Corporations aren't people and can't contribute
2) Limit election season to only a few months, instead of dragging it out for years.
3) Make terms of Representatives 4 years instead of 2 so they aren't constantly needing to raise money.

The parties have evolved into entities that are detrimental to the country.

And there are plenty of big money individual donors to political parties and they're the ones that run the parties.

We should have term limits on all elected government positions and we should disallow all foreign contributions to political parties and for no money from out of state for candidates running for Congress

Term limits should've been put in place 20 years ago

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

We should have term limits on all elected government positions and we should disallow all foreign contributions to political parties and for no money from out of state for candidates running for Congress

Of course "We SHOULD".....but we don't.
Government is a self serving entity at this point. They will only do what benefits those in power.
And since Americans are too afraid to stop the tyranny, tyranny it is.

Americans have been too comfortable and had too much for too long.
They EXPECT it, regardless of the obvious direction of government.
so as long as people still have a home and bread to eat, they will remain silent and cling to hopes the good times will someday return.