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Posted on 01/04/2011 6:16:33 PM PST by Libloather
The silver lining in all this may be that people will cease to trust government, and will want government to do a lot less — because government kills everything it touches.
Yeah it’s a warning... you’ve got to make it on your own, and quit depending on some pension or guaranteed income when you retire. I’m sorry, but if you want guaranteed schools, healthcare or pension, go to a socialist country. Capitalism means that some people and towns and cities fail...so that others can succeed.
We have gotten soft with our expectations of cradle-to-grave security.
Cutting the useless 90% of the drones nationwide would help.
This is an Emergency. An Emergency Spending Cut is needed to avoid Catastrophe. This crisis threatens national security.
and we will do NOTHING. Folks we are already bankrupt.
You are probably correct. Seeing the reaction of the drones throughout the nation won’t be pretty in many cases when the check doesn’t come in the mail anymore.
You are right, they just haven’t made the official announcement yet. When I recall hearing Zero stating he was going to spend a few billion on this and that, I honestly had to laugh at the stupidity of it all
Fine then I will move into a government building and live in the lobby until they find MY money.
“Read that again! This is San Diego, California—not Podunk, Nebraska.”
I would be willing to bet that the type of folks that run a Podunk, Nebraska are more fiscally responsible than the type of folks that run a San Diego, Ca.
Soon, it might make sense to cash in your 401K and take the tax penalty, just to get the money out of sight.
Yeah, they might have to depend on social security.
Like the working stiffs who pay their pensions do.
>I would be willing to bet that the type of folks that run a Podunk, Nebraska are more fiscally responsible than the type of folks that run a San Diego, Ca.
Beat me to it.
In addition the level of snotty elitism revealed in the author’s statement is revolting
Thank you for your post
Done.
“The silver lining in all this may be that people will cease to trust government, and will want government to do a lot less — because government kills everything it touches.”
Very excellent point.
If you don’t have a pension, you have to work, or lean on relatives. You will not be an independent man of leisure traveling the world.
When Social Security face-plants and medicare pays so little that nobody accepts it - that will be the next leg down.
It’s the new normal, for the vast majority of folks.
“Fine then I will move into a government building and live in the lobby until they find MY money.”
That might be difficult, but there might be space for your refrigerator box over the grates outside.
“That might be difficult, but there might be space for your refrigerator box over the grates outside.”
LMAO there maybe a fridge box shortage as well.
My husband took his retirement at 55 and took the penalty. He put it all in silver and it went up 30% since then. He has other projects that will make a living and we used some of the money for that. That more than paid the penalty.
I seem to recall people arguing that the pensions will be paid by taxpayers. Same with social security.
The whole system is going to collapse. Taxpayers will flee, hide income, whatever they have to do. Pension collapse is a symptom of the city mismanagement, not a cause.
The author seems to imply that once the dollars stopped flowing the town collapsed.
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