Posted on 05/14/2015 4:14:55 PM PDT by 11th_VA
“Druckenmiller, 61, has argued for several years that the mushrooming costs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will bankrupt the nation’s youth and eventually result in a crisis worse than the financial meltdown of 2008.”
We are already there; things haven’t improved since 2008.
Cash on the barrel head.
do you think Stan Druckenmiller is from the Left??
He’s a right wing Republican, who has one big difference from you, a basic understanding of accounting.
do you think Stan Druckenmiller is from the Left??
He’s a right wing Republican, who has one big difference from you, a basic understanding of accounting.
When it comes to politics, voting, who the republicans are, who the racists are, who are the people on the wrong side of issues like global warming, and immigration, gay issues, God, etc, more and more they are identified as “old” white people, the dinosaurs, the people from the past who haven’t died off yet, the old bigoted America, the greying dying old school people with the twisted unhip middle American minds and beliefs,etc.
The left is farther isolating whites as old, and you may have noticed how they keep talking about the “uncle” that you have to defend liberalism, gay issues, gun issues, and on and on against at family events like Thanksgiving, that is another way of even separating younger whites form older whites.
Apparently we were told in 2007/2008 to be more financially responsible, now that is reckless behavior that is ruining the economy...
People are starting to realize that the “new normal” isn’t a temporary blip; our economic malaise is a permanent situation signaling we are no longer the economic powerhouse of the world. We are now in an Asia-centric world which will probably remain that way until someone else passes the populations of Red China and India; for its part our government is trying to grow our numbers by simply trafficking them here...
When the Game of Life came out in in 1860, you retired at age 50 of old age.
The obesity epidemic is actually worsening with young people who avoid burning calories while still consume poor quality food. Obesity is the short path to loss of quality mobility.
Your anger seems to make it impossible for you to have a basic understanding of my posts.
There is not any massive aging problem.
It will work out according to scripture, just as it always has.
Those who were fruitful and multiplied and then invested their love and time in their children will be cared for by those children.
Those who had no children, or who pawned the raising of their progeny off on a succession of babysitters, coaches, teachers, pastors, etc. will quite properly reap the empty field they sowed.
It’s not rocket science, and it is mercilessly just.
I suspect I won’t be around to feel badly if and when these predictions come to pass.
When I entered the Marines back in the Carter administration the concensus was that we would never see a dime. Perhaps some constituencies are far less myopic than others.
There was a good reason why most of the best generals on either side during the Civil War were men in their 30s and 40s. Lee’s greatest handicap as a leader was his age. It probably cost him a victory at Gettysburg.
You’re right about older whites as being holdovers of the Old Regime that resist “fundamental transformation”, and there are steps to isolate them from others; the problem is that the government is caught between a rock and a hard place: They want to delay retirement for workers to later and later ages (to avoid having to pay them), and this forces many to keep working in jobs that young people (whites at least) desperately want. It is no accident that “assisted suicide” is being legalized in more and more places, and basically young people with a low standard of living are going to kill off prior generations that had enjoyed a better one. It won’t be because of their views on marriage, race, etc. (though that helps de-humanize them as enemies) - it will be for strictly financial reasons. Young people awaiting an inheritance are distressed watching mounting medical bills consume their parents’ estate, and would rather see them turned into Soylent Green than live with an illness for a few years before dying.
Welcome to post-Christian America...
Democrat crooks took Social Security money and gave it to members of their victim groups - the people who prop up white liberal elite pols.
(I'm attempting to please liberals by not doing a 'dog whistle'... so YES I'm also including programs - endless programs - ineffective programs - massive money programs - given to inner city blacks who live in places like Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit... )
See #34; children can be a double-edged sword. I was fruitful & multiplied, though I’m not sure what care my children may provide in the future (they’re still young and home at this point).
If they had invested the money in the stock market the ‘lockbox’ would be overflowing with money.
Actually even today many people do not make it to age 65 or 66. They never collect SS or Medicare benefits. But they paid all their lives until they died. I’m sure the govt counts on it.
The media is always looking for ways to marginalize conservative politics, especially social conservatism, the new way is to describe them as the left over ignorance and prejudices of a dying old racist group of white people, left overs from the dark, racist/sexist past.
Delayed retirement is not for older people but is suggested for people who are young today and with life expectancy far beyond what they used to be.
Changing the SS ages would not apply to anyone even close to currently being of retirement age.
When the “government” created social security the age of getting the benefit was 62 years old.
The average age of death for men in the United States was 62.
This was a democrat plan.
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