Increased Benefits Come With Social Security Expansion Act

The New American Magazine ^ | August 7, 2022 | David Kelly

[TexasGator]

” not worthy of being labeled “SHAME”,”

Anytime someone compares phrases excerpted from sentences thus eliminating the context it is shameful.

[CFW]

“Wages need to go up”.

+++++

Wages do need to go up, but it is going to take probably a decade before they go up enough to compensate for the current inflation. Trump had the right formula and wages were going up prior to the Wuhan flu hit.

For wages to go up we are going to need a more productive society, and less regulation, coupled with lower inflation, and I do not see that happening anytime soon.

[TexasGator]

“You may interpret the writing differently, but my reading of the plain text is completely defensible, not worthy of being labeled “SHAME”,”

Obviously you need to improve your skills.

I didn’t “shame” your interpretation. I shamed your posting incomplete sentences which eliminated the context preceding your excerpts.

[TexasGator]

” It is not questioning that there is a social contract, but whether the TRUST Act accomplishes the goal.”

Exactly. Context!

[Dr. Sivana]

Anytime someone compares phrases excerpted from sentences thus eliminating the context it is shameful.

Nine paragraphs back is not "context".

[Dr. Sivana]

Obviously you need to improve your skills.

People who cannot write well, and some who cannot interpret well, frequently use terms like "Obviously", or, as the original author put it, "We all know". That is Bill Kristol and Jennifer Rubin territory.

[Maris Crane]

Great comment.

[Dr. Sivana]

” It is not questioning that there is a social contract, but whether the TRUST Act accomplishes the goal.”

Exactly. Context!

I wasn't writing about the TRUST Act at all. It is NOT relevant. The author ACCEPTS the notion of Social Security being a Social Contract. He also claims that "everyone knows" taxation is theft. NONE of that has to do with the TRUST Act. It has to do with simultaneously held notions that are contradictory.

[TexasGator]

“Nine paragraphs back is not “context”.”

Sometimes it can be but in your case we are talking about the same sentence.

[TexasGator]

“People who cannot write well, and some who cannot interpret well, frequently use terms like “Obviously”, “

I only used it once.

[JimRed]

$200 a month will not break most seniors even against current costs.

[Dr. Sivana]

I only used it once.

The one time you used it, it was objectively inaccurate. I was a professional writer 39 years ago for two national magazines. I also wrote long ad copy for a later employer. Besides that, I had gotten good grades for much of my writing at two good colleges (The University of Chicago, Christendom College).

A lot of people with actual credentials have found my writing skills to be satisfactory.

[Dr. Sivana]

Sometimes it can be but in your case we are talking about the same sentence.

Earlier you used an entirely different example to pretend I was quoting "out of context". You can change your example, but it still has NOTHING to do with the author assuming Social Security to be a "Social Contract".

BUT, if it makes you happy, I will make the exact same statement WITH the reference to the TRUST Act. It still works fine, and you should be satisfied that context is included.

Instead, the Republicans are proposing the so-called TRUST Act (S. 1295), a bill that establishes congressional rescue committees to develop recommendations and legislation to improve critical social-contract programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
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We all know that taxation is theft,

It is hard to believe that the same person wrote both those sentences. This "Social Contract" lingo is used to generate the legal fiction that all people agreed to it because it was passed by a Congress and signed 90 years ago.

Contrast that with "We all know that taxation is theft". Well, Murray Rothbard thought so, and so do the anarcho-libertarians. That is not the traditional conservative position, nor the Bircher tradition. Now, taxation as it is now practiced is certainly theft. However, if a state funds its military by slapping tariffs on imported goods that are used to keep the order that makes the trade possible, I wouldn't call that theft in the same way that a payroll tax that goes into the general fund to fund things we are too broke to buy and don't need is.

[TexasGator]

” This “Social Contract” lingo “

That is not the author’s “lingo”. He is quoting from the text of the bill. His preceding “so-called” lays sets the context.

Obviously you misunderstood his statements and posted a misleading conclusion.

[TexasGator]

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[Dr. Sivana]

Obviously you misunderstood his statements and posted a misleading conclusion.

If he was quoting the actual text of the bill (and he was quoting the exact text of the summary), it would have made his meaning more clear if he used quotation marks.

Are you David Kelly? You have an awful lot invested in defending not only the content of the writing, but the style as well.

[SaveFerris]

(One of my friends here is actually a millionaire)

OK, Laz, I guess we have to arm-wrestle over that one. 🤣😁😜

Or Rock-Paper-Scissors. 😎