I'm curious. If someone in the old Soviet Union (or make it Cuba so it's current today) who hates communism but eats the government's potato soup when they can get something to eat, are they hypocrites?
Oh, no, I feel a retarded analogy coming on... Let's see how Corky this inbred extra chromosome idiot can get.
Veteran's benefits are certainly not welfare. When you have injuries or other conditions related to serving in the United States Armed Forces then the nation owes the medical treatment for those conditions or other conditions related to or resulting from those injuries. Discussion of that as a socialist program is absolutely off the table.
Uh, dude, I served for 11 years. Never got anywhere near a testy foreigner trying to kill me, as most veterans never do. Have no service related disabilities or injuries.
I'm still entitled to all those benefits for merely sitting behind my desk filling out DA Form 3645.
So why should I be given special benefits for 11 years of filling out requisition paperwork for the Army and not the 30 years I've spent since then filling out paperwork for various corporations?
Who passed Social Security and Medicare? The government takes over 15% of a person's pay for Social Security and Medicare. If everyone in the US saved or invested 15% for their entire working careers, and did anything at all to improve their skills above minimum wage jobs, they'd retire wealthy.
Okay, let's look at that. First, they don't take 15%, they take more like 7 for most people unless you are self-employed. The rest is provided by your employer.
Works on the assumption that most people are good at saving and would have put that money away.
Um.. Okay, let's look at that.
"Despite recognizing that debt is dangerous waters, Americans are jumping in with both feet and struggling to stay afloat," says Emily Holbrook, director of planning for Northwestern Mutual.
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The average American now has about $38,000 in personal debt, excluding home mortgages. That’s up $1,000 from a year ago, according to
Northwestern Mutual’s 2018 Planning & Progress Study, which also reports that “fewer people said they carry ‘no debt’ this year compared to 2017 (23 percent vs. 27 percent).”
As Americans grapple with economic uncertainty, a growing number of adults feel financial freedom is out of reach, according to a new Bankrate survey.
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Nearly three in 10 (28 percent) U.S. adults have no emergency savings, according to Bankrate’s latest Financial Security Index. One in four have a rainy day fund, but not enough money to cover three months’ worth of living expenses.
Getting into the habit of regularly saving money is critical, experts say. If you’re making automatic contributions to a 401(k) plan at work, you might as well have a portion of each paycheck deposited into a vehicle such as a
high-yield savings account. Unfortunately, it’ll take a lot more than that to solve the so-called savings crisis.
So, tell me, Corky, you really think that most Americans would do somehow better if they had 6% more income to work with?
And that's just social security. Medicare is a mere 1%, and that gets wiped out the minute you get sick.
Now, the reason why Medicare and Social Security are in trouble now is because they've been so successful. In 1960, the average American life expectency was 62 years. Most people died before they ever got a chance to retire. Now we have people regularly living into their 80's.
So, back to the potato soup, surviving in a socialist or communist economy does not negate your right to argue against socialism.
Um, sure it does, if you couldn't possibly provide potato soup on your own. That's the whole point.
All human existence is some kind of socialism. We all live off of goods and services provided by others labor, while other people live off our labor.
For instance, let's take health care. No matter if you are on Medicare, Medicaid or a private plan, you are either paying for other people's treatment if you get sick, or other people are paying for your treatment if your illness exceeds what you are paying into the system.
The problem with a private "Capalist" plan is you get the temptation to rip off people after they've paid to give nine-figure salaries to your executives, which is exactly what outfits like Cigna and Blue Cross do.