“No one who has paid into the system is a ‘moocher’.”
Ma’am, everyone who collects today, collects from folks who earn it today (and tomorrow too). That’s just a fact.
The money paid out by folks in the past was squandered and spent by ungrateful benefit collectors and government.
Today your attitude will enslave, starve, and leave penniless an entire generation. They won’t allow it, I guarantee you.
You need to understand that the money you collect is not yours - it belongs to someone else who (for now) willingly allows you to have it.
This is true of every penny of every check written to every person who gets one from the government. No matter why they get it, or how noble or ignoble the cause.
We are broke.
The men who threw the Boston Tea Party did not “own” the tea, either. Would you have discouraged them?
Today, lines are being drawn. The Tea Party vs. the EBT Party. Pick a side.
I am well aware of how it all works, thank you.
While I agree with your assertions, berating oneself and feeling guilty over the Ponzai scheme instituted by the feral federal government GENERATIONS before most of us were even born and in which our 'voluntary' participation is forced by legal intimidation, is, IMHO, a totally non-productive endeavor.
Unless you're just into self-flagellation.
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The lecture on your part may have been with the best intentions, but in the interest of putting-your-money-where-your-mouth-is......
What would be your solution to them problem of a system you can't get rid of yet are forced to contribute to? Pay into they system but never collect from it?
They've been taking MY money for 45 years.
Once that stops, we'll talk about how to deal with past politicians corruption - like selling off the vast territories that fedgov owns.