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Originally Posted by Talvenada
ANGRY:
Are you a Libertarian who wants to go back before and get rid of social security, Medicare, Welfare, and all other government programs with no restrictions on a free-market system? No wonder you're angry.
Only Obama & FDR are the criminals? Hoover and Bush must have done a lot of good things you'd like to spout off about?
TAL
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Government programs are why we are in the shit we are in.
That's the kicker. Politically, how do you end Social Security without it simply collapsing under its own weight? We can't just end it. Ignorant people will claim that "their money" is in the fund and they deserve to have it back... little do they realize "their money" was spent as soon as it was taken from their pay check. And politicians won't have the heart to tell them that, particularly the leftists that are in power at the time. Admitting this would force them to realize their ideology is a failure... and they are intellectually incapable of doing that. Either way, whether it is ended politically, or collapses financially, the result will be detrimental to whichever retired generation it disappears under. There's just no way to fix it without committing political suicide, so they aren't going to touch it.
Reserving judgment on the potential this current administration has, FDR was by and large the worst president in US history, followed very closely by Wilson and H Hoover. Bad presidents would follow, but it's FDR's policies that will be our financial ruin.
“No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with”-Thomas Sowell