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Originally Posted by Sly
Yeh, this is always the counter argument when I mention privatizing Social Security. It's always "people are so busy with their 40 hour work week and kids, how could we possibly ask them to spend five hours a year meeting with a financial planner to balance their investments?"
Sorry, I think it's a silly argument. Very very silly. If people can't spend five hours a year working on their retirement (yes, that's all it really takes,) then I really don't know what to say... that's just beyond retarded. There are so many different types of funds and investments set up that automatically balance your retirement portfolio according to your goals and your age it isn't even funny. Everyone is busy, everyone! Time management is about shifting your time into areas that are a priority... retirement is a priority to anyone with any sort of vision at all. To those without a vision... they need to wake up.
Bare minimum... take my 15%, give the old and sick 5%, put another 5% in some retarded slush fund that politicians can rape and pillage as they see fit, let me decide where the last 5% goes.
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I agree with you Sly. People don't get their own thinking. I laughed out loud when I read Kane's post. So many people think just like him. They don't plan their own retirements they just rely on the government. I will not take SS. I plan on handling myself, like we all should.
SS is there for people who fall on hard times. This is the problem with America today. People are relying too much on the government to support them. Look at California.
Now just image how government health care will turn out, which some people call free health care or universal, because then it doesn't sound like what it is
government health care. SS, which over the years people became dependant on as you can see and do not plan their own lives, is a big government program and it failed!!! Now what happens when the government health care fails??? You're going to have a whole country depending on it and the whole health care industry depending on the government. It belongs in the private sector, or it will fail. People from all over the world come to America for surgeries because our health care is in the hands of the people, not a corrupt government.
Government should be there for people who fall on hard times, not there to support everything and everyone who have the ability to support themselves, but would rather have a free hand out. This socialist way of thinking is disgusting, wimpy, uneducated, and a group of followers who are easily scared by words. Stop looking at the government for your answers, they are not it, WE ARE!!!