Posted on 03/01/2023 4:17:05 PM PST by artichokegrower
What’s the problem? They didn’t believe Gore’s “lock box” lie?
Because the geezer "vote" won't matter any more.
Yep let me know when they cut the myriads of social service programs.
Seems the Dems are using Senior Citizens as their scapegoat for poor financial planning and the coming financial distress the American taxpayer will experience.
Raise the age until no one can collect. Those 70 year old coal miners and plumbers will be happy to retire.
Which one of their multiple government pensions? Many in government have earned a number of pensions.
If they invested in the market they may be able to leave the retirement age alone.
If the market tanks it doesn’t matter because it’s the government and they can just borrow more money like they always do.
Why are we getting this information from a British rag sheet? Don’t the British have enough problems of their own to report on? You notice they NEVER talk about public welfare assistance running out of money.
We are in sooooo much trouble...
It would be mismanaged, no doubt. Money sent to Ukraine.. something stupid.
lol invest in stocks? how about Treasury Bills and bonds?
Raising the retirement age to 70 is unacceptable. Getting hired past 60 is nearly impossible in America. They are stone-cold screwing us.
“Terrible idea to have the gov’t invest in stocks.”
That is for sure.
While a lot of folks here think stocks are great based on decades of high growth there are serious issues:
—You can trust the CPA auditors of these firms as far as you can throw them. They are afraid of losing large clients and will find ways to keep them happy including clever footnotes and vague language that hides material problems.
—Corporations are deep into “equity” hiring after decades of affirmative action. That combined with baby boomer retirements has created a “brain drain” of critical skilled workers in almost every field. Senior management will be very slow to figure out the problems and even slower to disclose problems to shareholders.
—These days almost every industry is buried in government regulations and red tape that make them very inefficient and much more vulnerable to negative market factors.
—New technology has taken down a lot of companies and will take down a lot more. Many stocks are less than a decade away from having zero value.
—It has been almost one hundred years since a good old fashioned market killing depression. We are due.
Why don’t these f’n scumbags who hate American people stop sending our taxpayers money to foreign countries that hate us?
If the government needs to raise more money I suggest they start a national lotto in which the winner gets to slap the politician of their choice. $20-100/ticket (higher dollar amounts for senators, department heads, and agency heads. Each specific politician can only be slapped once per month. I’m sure millions would participate. Include the house and senate, big city mayors, governors, state senators, and also open it up to federal department heads and agency heads.
Hold drawings every week. 52 drawings/year, probably at least 10,000,000 tickets sold per drawing, so at an average of say $40 a pop this comes out to $20.8 billion/year. AND, it would bring national happiness.
I’m not gonna say because they weren’t vaccinated but that their immune systems were probably not accustomed to having frequent crutches to lean on in the form of flu vaccines AND perhaps more important is living with dirt, with nature, rather than (in the extreme) surrounded by a clean and gleaming cities of tomorrow.
I was pretty much burned at 50
All kinds of rude awakenings. I always thought my resume would keep me employed.
Then W broke everything and it was:
America Last and
Americans Last
Then the Manchurian Candidate....
Oy vey
(They are stone-cold screwing us.)
Absolutely.
Since the average age of death keeps decreasing, looks like government could save a lot of money. Plus, they’ve got Covid-19 mortalities (!omg term after vaccine). Plus, HIV causes premature aging of 14 years, so they’re all gonna die early. Killing off population is one way to save money on social security.
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