Politically connected thugs and liars do not represent me, any more than the local mafia Don and his represents the neighborhood, the Italians in the neighborhood, or the Sicilians in the neighborhood.
YOU are taking my money! YOU are NOT doing any work on my behalf. You are not serving anyone except yourself now. And you hide behind the same kind of embeggar-the-future policies of thugs, thieves and liars used to justify union pension bailouts, school district pension bailouts, and your own life of Reilly on my dime.
When you DID work YOU GOT PAID THEN! You cashed those paychecks and you had the same opportunities everyone else has to invest part of that for your future.
A lot of the work I DID goes to providing you and you family the goods and the energy you used your whole life. And some of those jobs where dangerous too. Men got injured, men died on those jobs. I ain’t asking YOU for one thin dime. I ain’t FORCING YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN to make my retirement quite nice and lush and luxuriant, and then arresting you and your children for failure to pay up.
I had good long term benefits—in the form of stock—too. Stock in real companies is a more HONEST way of funding retirement. But some of that is gone. The companies went bankrupt. Companies that provided vital goods and services too.
THIS COUNTRY IS BANKRUPT. You made an agreement about the future. The future is uncertain.
But rather than being part of a viable future, you only look out for yourself.
YOU, with that attitude of entitlement, disgust us.
“When you DID work YOU GOT PAID THEN!”
No, I received partial payment.
And now I am receiving payment made after the fact. I did the work I contracted to do, and now you want to avoid the payment you promised to make.
Oh, but wait!
“Politically connected thugs and liars do not represent me, any more than the local mafia Don and his represents the neighborhood, the Italians in the neighborhood, or the Sicilians in the neighborhood.”
Sorry, dude, but this is a republic. You don’t suffer under tyranny. We have elections. They install democratically elected representatives to make decisions.
No one made you dictator for life to make national decisions about when we go to war, or who leaves these shores and goes to others to fight.
I was hired to do a job, with some payment concurrent and other payment deferred. I was hired on the installment plan. You didn’t complain about my service while I was giving it, but now you want to withhold payment.
Kipling wrote a poem about your type:
While it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, fall be’ind”,
But it’s “Please to walk in front, sir”, when there’s trouble in the wind,
There’s trouble in the wind, my boys, there’s trouble in the wind,
O it’s “Please to walk in front, sir”, when there’s trouble in the wind.