Oh, it get’s better. Under Obozo, SS payments have increased just a little over 1% while he was at the helm, but welfare and other “transfer payments” (e.g., free cell phones) have increased just a little over 30%. At what point does the Left realize that the productive members of society won’t stand for this? History is strewn with the wreckage of governments, like Greece, that thought they could maintain power by transferring from the productive to the unproductive. I’m not worried about me, but I fear for my kids and grandchildren. It’s way past time to stop subsidizing the freeloaders.
Stand for what? Increasing SS payments without a corresponding increase in revenue?
they sit down for it instead.
Productive members have been standing for it and have been too busy working paying everyone’s bills. Middle class tax payers have been paying the way for the criminals, rich, and the poor. D.C. Is nothing more than a low class Las Vegas draped in flags, statues and civil rights legislation (except for the unborn babies.) That bottom layer on that pyramid on the back of that dollar bill is us, THE TAX PAYER supporting everyone else on top of us.