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Originally Posted by ITraffic
reading this thread i thank god obamacare was created to kill off well off white males.
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Well off, white males can afford to get robbed by private insurance.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
I do agree that both Social Security and Medicare have become socialism.
Was/Is Social Security supposed to be socialism? Not the way it's written. It's supposed to be the govt. saving MY money and giving it back to me when I retire.
It has BECOME a socialist program because it was instantly used to pay for people over age 65 who had never been a part of it. So for the first few decades...the govt. handed over working people's money to retirees who had never paid a dime into the system.
And now we have todays workers paying for yesterdays workers retirements instead of the way it was supposed to be.
Typical govt. stupidity.
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So I could have landed in the US before my 65th birthday and claimed a pension?
Can you explain how someone can suddenly get Social Security and Medicare without being part of the system?
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Originally Posted by Rob
I'm glad you used Social Security as an example of Socialist policy.
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I kind of get what you're both saying.
When Social Security and Medicare were constructed it was at a time when most Americans had well-paying jobs, the tax revenue was high enough to support the low cost of demand. Since then Governments have sold the ideal of free trade. Allowing companies to export those jobs to the Third World and replace a job making a product to selling it a mall.
Also, companies basing themselves in places like the Cayman Islands to not pay the right level of taxes.
To add to this Governments insist on importing cheap labour to put citizens out of jobs or lower wages.
Agreed it's the Governments fault and most of you, opposed to change, are saying they should keep doing it. This isn't a US situation, it's Worldwide. We need to stop companies basing themselves in places to dodge tax, tax imports from countries dumping cheap goods on is and sue
any company employing illegal labour into bankruptcy. What a fine American he is.