The Chief Blue Hampster may have learned a dead language but not so much on math.... - Granite Grok

The Chief Blue Hampster may have learned a dead language but not so much on math….

Dean over at Blue Hampshire is kvetching again.  Over Social Security.  Figures:

If we Gen Xers had a nickel for every Very Serious Older Person in the Village who clamors for Social Security "reform" that doesn’t affect those nearing retirement – but is mum on those Gen-Xers who have been paying into it for decades – we’d have enough nickels to fund our retirement outside of this allegedly secure and social system.

So fun to read (between the lines) over and over again how I’ll be in the first wave of those who gave more and are left with less!

Hey Dean – meet the "Mother of all Ponzi Schemes" – no, not Bernie Madoff, but your US Government.  Started by the most wonderful Progressive of all (or second, your choice), FDR.

And no, you aren’t the only one – I figure that I will have paid into that scheme for FAR longer than you – but am doubting that it will be able to pay anything.  Frankly, the time of "retirement for the common folk" based simply on government dependency is probably over.  Simply, a casualty of demographics – not enough rich people to tax, and certainly not enough workers of any strip to tax.  The system works with "large family culture: (you know, the kind that the Progressive environmentalists hate – 4,5,…15 kids) that continually add to the base of the Ponzi pyramid to pay the previous generation.  But our current culture looks down upon that type of thing.

Add to that, the massive stealing by the Political Class of the money that was in that "Trust Fund" – yeah, that’s working out real well now, isn’t it?  And you have only you, and your philosophical brethren that never met a government expenditure on social issues you didn’t like, to blame.  Suck that money out, replace it with…


… an IOU, and pray to God that somehow that dept could ante back the cash it took.

Well, guess what – God didn’t listen to the prayers of the thieves and greedy within Govt, nor that of the Greedy Gimme Class either.  So now, it’s a double problem – previous tax money is tapped out and you now have to double tax the young to pay present obligations.

And you think Govt is just better than sliced electrons, too!

Looks like a return to the past will soon be here – where the mirage of elderly independence will go up in smoke faster than the doobie in your fingers.  It was always a shame – even my Mom thought she was being "independent" and not burdening her family.

What a sham and what a shame – it was all a delusion; swapping a dependency on family to a dependency on total strangers.  Tell me, Dean – which is better and which is worse?

Charity starts at home and does not demand such from strangers.  I guess we’ll all be relearning basic values and basic economics real soon, given that your Democrat Socialists have spent the vault dry….

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