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HughBeaumont

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18. Our new government will be "Three Branches Bush on Steroids" by Dec 2017.

Reply to JHan (Original post)

Tue Nov 29, 2016, 12:49 PM

Nov 2016

More than a few dozen of these Congressional privatization asswipes call Social Security and Medicare "handouts" . . . mostly folks who will never need either one.

More than several dozen Congress and Senate critters are along the lines of Reagan when he said of unemployment insurance: "A pre-paid vacation for freeloaders".

This country loves these assholes because they aren't "poor" . . . they're "temporarily embarrassed millionaires".

I ask . . . with all of these obstacles . . . forget about GMI, because it's not going to happen in our lifetimes; how do we keep the current social safety net as is (which, sorry, isn't even close to being enough) INTACT?

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"what if jobs are not the solution but the problem?" [View all] JHan Nov 2016 OP

A universal income? What a Marxist idea. guillaumeb Nov 2016 #1

Yes Marxist :D :D JHan Nov 2016 #2

Yep. JHan Nov 2016 #8

The GOP loves to frame unemployment and/or underemployment guillaumeb Nov 2016 #19

eventually, this pretty much has to be the answer anarch Nov 2016 #3

In my view, the reason that this idea is anathema to todays Libertarian driven GOP guillaumeb Nov 2016 #4

We'll just quote Hayek right back at them.. JHan Nov 2016 #9

I respond with #8. eom guillaumeb Nov 2016 #20

humanitarian missions could largely supplant the current military-industrial profit center anarch Nov 2016 #10

And as others have pointed out, guillaumeb Nov 2016 #21

There's a quote I remember from Jacques Attali about 20 years ago (still true): hatrack Nov 2016 #5

I have always believed that providing a universal minimum income... mike_c Nov 2016 #6

thanks for sharing your story mike.. JHan Nov 2016 #12

who/what provides the revenue stream that WhiteTara Nov 2016 #7

As percentage of GDP for starters... JHan Nov 2016 #11

Thanks for the explanation. WhiteTara Nov 2016 #16

Our GDP is low, for some reasons I won't get into now, but we do produce ;) JHan Nov 2016 #17

So many jobs have been lost to automation that this is probably the only answer alarimer Nov 2016 #13

Germany is very different culturally.. JHan Nov 2016 #14

And one more point about outsourcing -- JHan Nov 2016 #15

Our new government will be "Three Branches Bush on Steroids" by Dec 2017. HughBeaumont Nov 2016 #18