SnakeDoc
SnakeDoc
"In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present eduction conventions of intellectual and character education fade from their minds, and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people, or any of their children, into philosophers, or men of science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen - of whom we have an ample supply. The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way."
- John D. Rockefeller, General Education Board (1906)
Retirees? What an idiot.
This guy is a jerk.
Someone who has worked all his life and supported a family and sent them all through college and then has worked five extra years before retiring at 70—like myself—is not the equivalent of a single mother who produces children from 5 or 6 different fathers, collects welfare for all of them, and never does a day’s work in her life.
I put far more into social security over the years than I’ll ever get out of it. If I’d had it my way, I’d have put that money into a private retirement account, in addition to what I managed to save, and gotten far more income from it than the government will ever give me.
A retired worker is not the same as an illegal immigrant who gets social security without ever working for it, and votes a dozen times for Obama.
Same with medicare. I put far more into that than I’ll ever get out. It’s not the same thing as medicaid.
Chicago did this a few years back, selling their parking meters to a private company. Now in many parts of Chicago, parking meters have hit $6.00 per hour.
Oh yeah, zombies aren`t too bad..TILL THEY BITE YOU!
It conflates the issue to include retirees in the same category as the various moochers who are pure takers, many for their entire lives. Yet is is commonly done in articles like this in order to make some half truth sound like a reasonable analysis.
By definition a retiree is one who was a productive, contributiing member of society until they reached the age when they could, or had to, retire, in part or in full.
The legitimate retirees of today are the people who worked all their lives to build much of the country, the wealth and the economy that is currently being squandered by the liberal, moocher, Obama generation.
Those able-bodied people who managed to weasle their way onto disability or social security before retirement age are not retirees - they are moochers and there are millions upon millions of them. They are true Zombies.
Zombies, especially federal and state bureaucrats, is a winning metaphor if the ‘pubs would ever bother to run with it.
Good read. Thanks for posting.