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In reply to the discussion: Ever wonder why you receive endless email and snail mail asking for money for Democrats? [View all]PatrickforB
(15,327 posts)give us money so we can FIGHT for you!
We gave Harris over $1 billion and 65 billionaire parasites matched us and funded Trump. Who profited? Wall Street financiers and institutional shareholders. It was like a giant slop-trough on a pig farm.
Meanwhile what do I have?
Well, I did everything right - began working at 16, worked my way through college then grad school. Got a good job. Grew in the job. Bought a house. Raised a family.
In the meantime, I paid into Social Security and Medicare paycheck by paycheck by paycheck for 40 years. FORTY YEARS.
Now what do I have to show?
- $10K in HEALTHCARE DEBT.
- I've had a call into the Social Security Administration for FOUR MONTHS and no one has called me back.
- When I call my US Senators, half the time they don't even answer. And they are Democrats!
- House still mortgaged - I first refinanced to pay off STUDENT DEBT from grad school.
- The Wall Street greedheads are trying to fucking PRIVATIZE Social Security and Tim Kaine is leading the charge for institutionalist Democrats.
Fuck that.
As far as I'm concerned the federal government doesn't give a rat's rear end about me because the institutionalists are so in the pocket of billionaires, think tanks like ALEC, Cato, Heritage and the Federalist Society. As George Carlin said, "It's a big club and you ain't in it."
I'm fucking tired of it. I've paid income tax as well as FICA year after year after year after year, AND I'M GETTING NOTHING IN RETURN. NOTHING. Is this what the term 'taxation without representation' means? I think it is, because this government hasn't done anything that materially benefitted me or my family since Medicare passed back in the 1960's.
So, for all the Democratic heavy hitters on this site - you have lost me. I'm sick of being nickel and dimed by people telling me they are gonna 'fight for me.' It is so fucking HARD to be middle class because we've had the old Wall Street SQUEEZE ever since 1971 when Lewis Powell laid out the plan for the corporate takeover of the republic. And now that's happening with this Russell Vought. His Project 2025 is the 'what do do now that Powell's plan worked.'
No more money from me. Ever. Not until I get universal health care, Social Security is saved and Medicare re-funded. I want debt free college for my grandkids, and a good, solid K-12 system.
Get it? I CARE ABOUT KITCHEN TABLE ISSUES. Harris said it when she got interviewed. Our system is broken and I'm not giving the effing thing another DIME until the players fix it.