Retiring Entitlements
I wish Democrats were right about Republicans wanting to cut entitlements. It’d be nice for them to be honest for once. Social Security along with government insurance for the elderly and underprivileged are treated like sacred sacraments of a sacrilegious religion that is bankrupting parishioners who must attend then fill collection baskets. The worst sort of bipartisanship for the lousiest sort of coerced participation is great for survival otherwise.
Bankrupting America to issue a pittance because two Democratic presidents understood buying votes and not products is a reflection of our values. Federal dispensaries deal the precise opposite of compassion, which makes the concept like every other governmental scheme. The duped should notice consistency by the time they reach retirement age.
Pretending government can offer protections from life’s mean vagaries exacerbates them. There are more figurative ways to learn how cruel irony can get. Social Security is antisocial and insecure, but I’m certain that’s the sole time government has ever not created the precise opposite.
Explaining the system if it started today would lead to fleeing the timeshare office. Washington will confiscate a portion of your paycheck and return it in a few decades when you’re done working. Oh, and there are no guarantees you’ll get anything back. Plus, the return will be so far below what was involuntarily seized that you’d laugh if you weren’t going to spend your golden years ironing aluminum foil to be used again. As far as interest, you should have none.
You can’t call it an investment when money’s not invested. That notion seems pretty basic, which is why politicians ignore it. I wish what was pilfered were just sitting there, as the IOUs that replace them aren’t accepted by most retailers.
Forced contributors might be shocked to learn the percentage of growth is a bit worse than zero. It’s tricky to visualize a negative number just like it is to miss money taken before it’s ever seen. The sinister shielding from awful outcomes can’t protect from doom.
You may be shocked to learn that a government that’s racked up close to 32 freaking trillion dollars in debt is a little shaky at creating decent returns. Federal retirement planning is the worst return on investment since Mark McGwire rookie cards, and at least a cardboard-based portfolio was voluntary. Americans are punished for the crime of employment, which is a Democratic specialty.
It’s not going to matter what they claim. Certainty doesn’t necessarily provide relief. The indifference of mathematics operating in reality is cruel to big dreamers who want to move past the indignity of having to pay. An unfathomable negative balance growing larger by the nanosecond explains why liberals loathe economics. That doesn’t change how broke we are.
Check to see what polls poorly before deciding to address the impending financial collapse caused by buying votes. There’s not even a good value for what’s being sold. Entitlements for seniors poll well. Also, children like ice cream and get mad when it’s replaced for dinner with a dish containing more protein.
Determining what style of ripoff is preferable doesn’t really result in a winner. Robbed backers are either getting more than they put in or ending up with less. Exploiters of the system join with suckers to demand the Ponzi scheme remain untouched.
It’s adorable to get to that age and think they have their own accounts. Washington is at best holding money they took from you, and they’re far from said best.
I have bad news about your lockbox if you thought it was a box that locked. I know it’s illegal for the government to lie, but their claims seem to not be quite close to the truth. Your dreams for a comfortable life after telling your boss to suck it have been cracked open and looted by authorities who were safeguarding it. Don’t fret, as they took what you thought was theirs by law.
The private sector wins every single time, including and especially when it comes to your own earnings. Take the money being shredded in the capital and stick it in a mutual fund to have way more security. Democrats try to discourage personal responsibility, as it’s bad for their business.
Bills would be safer under the floorboards than in our nation’s capital. Buying insurance from the same place where you get cars covered would mean competition for your services, and those options are dangerous for tyrants who already dislike having to face voters.
Having to fix the sense of assurance is going as poorly as the nation’s checking balance. Jittery politicians could announce a transition if they’re freaked out about offending voters who like having their money taken for decades in the hopes of getting some back.
Propose retirement accounts where participants get to choose where to stick their earnings that might actually result in ending up with more money, even factoring in the inflation brought by Bidenomics. Or keep tossing funds into a federal black hole. The paper not worth much, anyway.
Fearing voters who have their handouts handed back in is no way to reach forward. Running from financial catastrophe is surely courageous. Wait: it’s the other one. The refusal to add is truly Trumpian in cravenness, economic ignorance, and dedication to federal filtering of confiscated funds. Seeing the benefits of better quality insurance and quantities of money should entice Republicans to offer a valuable alternative. The latter might even be worth more on account of printing less to hand out. Treating currency like AOL CDs in 1998 has made them worth the equivalent today.
The illusion of protection is central to every federal scheme. Seniors will be fine in retirement thanks to Washington as long as those born first don’t get sick or plan on spending money.
