Americans can’t do math. Innumeracy inability to understand, reason with, and to apply simple numerical concepts
I PAID for my social security.
If irresponsible people chose to squander the money, then this is on them, not me.
If you need to cut entitlements, talk to me when the fubophones are deactivated.
We won’t learn. Only a very tiny minority of Americans actually care about this. The rest won’t care until the system begins to fail and the automatic benefit cuts kick in.
Making unsubstantiated statements tends to neuter one's argument; but I'll get to the point.
We are dealing in apples vs oranges here. The world does not dance to the franc, but it does dance to the dollar (thus far). Hence the French cannot print money willy-nilly. Then there's the euro, stifling any would-be quantitative easing even further.
As long as Americans think they're too big to fail, as long as they think the government will always simply dig deeper into the vapor-paper trough to meet their retirement needs, this country will never face the reality of it. But there's an end to it. The dollar is beginning to experience competition. Mind you, the competition is just as unreliable as the dollar; but the world is at least flirting with some very big changes.
Always running out of money for social security. Never running out of money for welfare.
I’d like a politician to explain how that works.