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Which is why you, and millions of other people, are victims in this. Money you thought was being saved for you was spent as quickly as they got it, and more. In truth, instead of FICA, your income tax was more than doubled, and you didn’t know it.

It did buy a lot of things. It defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and created the Pax Americana, which has prevented many other major wars that would have cost American blood and treasure.

It has staved off many recessions and even depressions and given us all a higher standard of living than we could have afforded otherwise. Things like our interstate highway system and our federal aviation system.

But it was all a lie, and an unconstitutional lie. There is no way it could mathematically continue, and was so improbable a system that even the founding fathers saw that public largesse was unsustainable, “bread and circuses”, as the Romans called it.

And on the other side, it is a major article of faith among socialists, who lack the common sense and pattern recognition, and mathematics, to see how it could never work for any great length of time.

So you will have to do without. But the adjustment back to reality won’t likely be as bad as imagined, either, since many people are in the same boat. You won’t get what was promised, but you will probably get something. Just not from the national government, because it is, and never was, their job to give, only to take away.