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In reply to the discussion: AARP statement on Social Security Cut... NO!!!!!! [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)The ones who destroyed so many people's lives?
Damn bad oversight on the part of those Walmart employees. Silly people get the Walmart subsidy, aka Earned Income Credit because their pay is so near the poverty line. The post suggest they are dumb bastards for spending it on food instead of investing it like Warren Buffet. On the other hand our elected officials vote for a program called TARP, with an assurance that (it's recorded) it will be used to stem foreclosures. Instead the banks use it to enrich themselves and say no to stopping over a hundred thousand FAMILIES from being yanked from their homes into the street. Then the government sends them hundreds of billions of dollars more.
There's some planning and forethought that's breathtaking.
Above, it seems in that point of view those 13 million people over 65 for whom this is their only source of regular income are thoughtless fools who just tempt fate by living until they are to be paid the Social Security they were promised.Don Quixote had nothin' on these people, eh?.
Money that would otherwise pay for these things, and for training and infrastructure, the things that create opportunity for people who work every day, is instead being used to fund useless wars, kill civilians (we've funded the deaths of more than 20 innocent children in our little drone wars in the past few years, at least 7 times more, btw), and and protect rich people from losing part of their billions of dollars.
That post above seems like grave dancing on a yet to be filled grave, just to make sure they hear you before they die. Or maybe I'm reading it wrong.