"How about cutting all those worthless federal agencies? Department of Energy? Department of Education? Homeland Security? FEMA? Maybe if they raid Mar-a-Lago again, the FBI?"
You forgot to list the War Department...cut that by 90%. But the War Department is a great money laundering scheme, among many, for the rapacious megalomaniacs who control this country. This country is in the bowl, and the flush is on.
I read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” years ago, decades before I became a Christian. I liked it and thought it was great. Then I became a Christian and realized what an awful, cold and cruelly indifferent person Rand really was.
Good read, as always. You are correct on all points from where I sit.
Don, I just read the opening salvo, locked down at work and been so for a solid two weeks -- with one day off, but SOB these bastards need to work a real job before squawking out about raising the retirement age. So already fumed! It is already a travesty to wait till 70, if I make it that long, to have a hope of getting back 5%? of what was paid over the prior 30 years
and Yes, Realist is correct -- cut the damn bloated agencies first!!!
I am not a fan of Social Security. I am not a fan of the Stupid Party or their "solution" either. It was part of nearly every society that the younger generations would care for their elders: eldest sons would care for their fathers and mothers both materially and physically. The elders would provide assistance in what ways they could, be it knowledge, direction, advice, etc.
Today, our generations are self-centered. We cannot be bothered with carrying on the family business. We cannot be burdened with caring for our parents. Advice? Not from them.
We only need "social security" because the REAL social security net, the family, has been decimated by consumerism, usury, government, and individualism.
Very insightful! Many angles I’ve not considered or was even aware of. Our gov is like a freight train rolling downhill. No entity or person could operate on this level of incompetency, carelessness, irresponsibility or insanity on steroids, but gov gets away with it. I’m so angry & frustrated! Why even have gov if gov only uses its power to enslave, manipulate & lie? SMH
Our longevity is also radically shortened by the incessant geoengineered toxins the monsters pump into the sky that we breathe and ingest with meals and drink. The words of politicians mean nothing. Owen Madden, the Irish Godfather of New York City, was mentored by an especially violent gangster named Monk Eastman. Madden, no shrinking violet himself, at the tender age of 15, beat a man half to death for robbing groceries from his mother and killed a man for insulting his sister. Eastman taught him much about fighting and killing, but Madden said the most important thing he ever taught him was this: The man sitting behind the desk, the politician, despite his fake smiles and bland assurances, is never your friend, their symbiotic alliances notwithstanding. The gangsters who did not pay heed to this truth found themselves doing life sentences in a maximum security "Slam" or taking the short walk to the execution chamber because they foolishly trusted these vermin. Though they be remorseless killers, I'll take a gangster over a politician anytime. They have a strange code of honor, when they give their word it is solid, unlike the sleazy, mendacious pols. Ayn Rand was a Tranny, very fitting that a freak like that espoused "her" sick philosophies. In the U.S., it is socialism for the rich and dog eat dog capitalism for the poor. A class/caste, Babylonian system held in place by the legal industry racketeers and force of arms. The only reason FDR established the benefits he did was because he warned his rich handlers that if he didn't, the masses of destitute Americans with nothing to lose would burn the country down and their mansions along with it. But our enemies never sleep and they have their slimy claws around our collective necks again. Look into the Jerome Daly case of 1968, the Credit River Case, whereupon he sued the bank and won proving they create money out of thin air while seizing citizen's tangible assets. No court will honor that ruling or even concede it exists, stare decisis regardless. It would bring the ruling class criminal's house of cards tumbling down in short order. This got my blood flared, Don, truly outstanding, and thank you.
People should ask why is it that governments are kicking $100 dollar bills out of the way to pick up nickels? In reality they are kicking those $100 bills over to their cronies while stomping the life out of of the hard working people that built this country. Their reward for all their hard work is to be referred to as "useless eaters" while being starved by the inflation cause by all the money they are kicking over to the friends and masters of a corrupt political system.
Shapiro? Never heard of the Jew twat, who cares what he thinks or says… go ahead, kill SS and Medicare, all it will do is speed up the collapse real fast imo. And plenty of fires would be burning in DC and all other capitals, would be fun to watch, sit back and let the sheep and gub’mint employees off each other. People who have faith and family will protect their own and tribalism will return. A much better option than this society and shit hole country. BTW, the illegals are dipping their toes in your benefits, and we just watch it all happen like a bunch of fucking cucks. As long as we have our phones and influencers the sheep will do zip.
In an article March 12, 2023, about a year ago, Nikki Haley was calling for raising the retirement age, the article says that in the previous week, at the CPAC meeting, Trump mentioned that some in the party wanted to raise the minimum age to 70, 75 even 80.
Haley is still calling for it, as we've heard.
I'm not a Leftist and am fairly Conservative, but, the Republicucks are scum. They are spineless and all about themselves. This leads me to Satanist Anton Lavey. In his Satanic Bible, a general theme is the indulgence of the flesh. Me, mine and a middle finger to the world. The individual and self as god. The greed orientation is sadistic and over the top. F you, it's me and my desires, as long as you don't hurt anybody, so he says...
The years go on, I hear about Libertarianism. It sounds kind of reasonable but it starts getting "Hurray for me, F you," like an over the top selfishness wrapped in self-righteous individualism. It almost sounded "Satanic." I've heard this before.
I looked up Anton Levey on Wikipedia, is he a libertarian? Well, one of his influences was Ayn Rand.
So the Republicucks say, f 'em, ain't my problem. That's kind of evil.
During the Dubya administration, George Carlin famously said "They're coming for your Social Security...and you know what...they'll get it."
Medicare is already more than half privatized by the vulture of Wall Street. Medicare Advantage plans fraudulently take over $140 Billion a year (more than is paid in in premiums from seniors for Medicare) and that is a conservative number...draining Trillion not for health care, but for profit. But draining the Trust fund for private profit.....well, here I go again on my soap box. What other System would do that but the beloved Capitalist system.
Capitalism's ONLY tenant is to protect shareholder wealth. Not the public. Not consumers. Not support communities. Protect shareholder wealth. So what do you expect from such a System? And please don't banish me to the Corn Field....even though I am pointing out facts about the beloved System.
Back in the '80's, when I was working a real job and still fairly young and dumb, I was not dumb enough to know that "Social Security" is nothing but a Ponzi scheme, and I did not expect to see one red cent of all the wealth I gave them in the '80's. I would get a paycheck for $900, which included 30 hours of overtime, and I would see that nearly over $100 went to Social Security and Income Tax. After everybody had their cut, I would go home with about $720. And of course, the instant I started putting gas in the motorcycle, more was going up in taxes.
Social Security is a gimmick to keep a person invested in the grid, invested in gov't, and invested in the political game. (Let's vote for the person who is going to give us the most free stuff.) It is Welfare for older people.
I could see, maybe, having a program for those disabled and those too weak or sick to work- but that should apply at any age. Why would a perfectly able-bodied person- at any age, want a handout?
Now, being totally off the grid, I don't expect to see one dime of social security. And if I did go on the grid, they would probably want to know what I was doing the last 30 years. Probably thinking I was working for a drug cartel, or training in terrorist boot camp.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. You are our only hope!
You nailed it again! I am on Medicare and just had an outpatient surgical procedure. The bill was $13,000. This was the Medicare adjusted price. If you were paying cash without the negotiated adjustments it would be double. I am relatively well off but I could not afford that. My wife is in South America taking care of her mother. She had an MRI performed and it cost $100 without any insurance. Yes, a walkin off the street MRI for $100! All I have to say is there are some real elitist assholes in our wonderful country. Sorry I can't be more positive. Bless you and your readers.
"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.
"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not."
"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigor, then?" said Scrooge.
"Both very busy, sir."
"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."
"Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavoring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?"
"Nothing!" Scrooge replied.
"You wish to be anonymous?"
"I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned -- they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
- The Republican Party of the United States of America 2024
They Vaxx killed many of the elderly so they won't pay them the thing, and keep aall the money they owe them!!!. And many of them happen to have pensions they paid into aall their lives. Yeah, the Alphabet agencies swallow a WhoOole lots of CASH. And they are as useless as can be. There is so much to talk about in this regard..
Trump is considering Kristi Noem (gov of S.D.) for VP. She just signed a rather confusing bill into law
defining anti-semitic acts. I'm not sure exactly what it entails, but it sounds like pandering to some Zionist entity, Evangelicals, and neo-cons, while ignoring and insulting the outraged sensibilities of the
rest of the people concerned with current atrocities.
All the front-runners are pro-Israel and stooges of the biggest cartel in history.
Next they are banning Tic Toc for the same reason, that young people are catching on to the war machine grift. Maybe they don't relish getting drafted. I'm sure that inflation is kicking their asses
hardest and that they are losing what little faith they had in this system; maybe even getting skeptical
of the never ending whackzinnes while watching their friends collapse one after the other.
Meanwhile they see people like Kirk Cousins signing a four year contract for 180 million plus 28 million in "dead money" whatever that is... Maybe that younger generation will be wiser than the boomers after all and not fall for every grift hook line and sinker.
"How about cutting all those worthless federal agencies? Department of Energy? Department of Education? Homeland Security? FEMA? Maybe if they raid Mar-a-Lago again, the FBI?"
You forgot to list the War Department...cut that by 90%. But the War Department is a great money laundering scheme, among many, for the rapacious megalomaniacs who control this country. This country is in the bowl, and the flush is on.
Thanks for the article
I read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” years ago, decades before I became a Christian. I liked it and thought it was great. Then I became a Christian and realized what an awful, cold and cruelly indifferent person Rand really was.
Good read, as always. You are correct on all points from where I sit.
Don, I just read the opening salvo, locked down at work and been so for a solid two weeks -- with one day off, but SOB these bastards need to work a real job before squawking out about raising the retirement age. So already fumed! It is already a travesty to wait till 70, if I make it that long, to have a hope of getting back 5%? of what was paid over the prior 30 years
and Yes, Realist is correct -- cut the damn bloated agencies first!!!
I am not a fan of Social Security. I am not a fan of the Stupid Party or their "solution" either. It was part of nearly every society that the younger generations would care for their elders: eldest sons would care for their fathers and mothers both materially and physically. The elders would provide assistance in what ways they could, be it knowledge, direction, advice, etc.
Today, our generations are self-centered. We cannot be bothered with carrying on the family business. We cannot be burdened with caring for our parents. Advice? Not from them.
We only need "social security" because the REAL social security net, the family, has been decimated by consumerism, usury, government, and individualism.
Very insightful! Many angles I’ve not considered or was even aware of. Our gov is like a freight train rolling downhill. No entity or person could operate on this level of incompetency, carelessness, irresponsibility or insanity on steroids, but gov gets away with it. I’m so angry & frustrated! Why even have gov if gov only uses its power to enslave, manipulate & lie? SMH
Our longevity is also radically shortened by the incessant geoengineered toxins the monsters pump into the sky that we breathe and ingest with meals and drink. The words of politicians mean nothing. Owen Madden, the Irish Godfather of New York City, was mentored by an especially violent gangster named Monk Eastman. Madden, no shrinking violet himself, at the tender age of 15, beat a man half to death for robbing groceries from his mother and killed a man for insulting his sister. Eastman taught him much about fighting and killing, but Madden said the most important thing he ever taught him was this: The man sitting behind the desk, the politician, despite his fake smiles and bland assurances, is never your friend, their symbiotic alliances notwithstanding. The gangsters who did not pay heed to this truth found themselves doing life sentences in a maximum security "Slam" or taking the short walk to the execution chamber because they foolishly trusted these vermin. Though they be remorseless killers, I'll take a gangster over a politician anytime. They have a strange code of honor, when they give their word it is solid, unlike the sleazy, mendacious pols. Ayn Rand was a Tranny, very fitting that a freak like that espoused "her" sick philosophies. In the U.S., it is socialism for the rich and dog eat dog capitalism for the poor. A class/caste, Babylonian system held in place by the legal industry racketeers and force of arms. The only reason FDR established the benefits he did was because he warned his rich handlers that if he didn't, the masses of destitute Americans with nothing to lose would burn the country down and their mansions along with it. But our enemies never sleep and they have their slimy claws around our collective necks again. Look into the Jerome Daly case of 1968, the Credit River Case, whereupon he sued the bank and won proving they create money out of thin air while seizing citizen's tangible assets. No court will honor that ruling or even concede it exists, stare decisis regardless. It would bring the ruling class criminal's house of cards tumbling down in short order. This got my blood flared, Don, truly outstanding, and thank you.
People should ask why is it that governments are kicking $100 dollar bills out of the way to pick up nickels? In reality they are kicking those $100 bills over to their cronies while stomping the life out of of the hard working people that built this country. Their reward for all their hard work is to be referred to as "useless eaters" while being starved by the inflation cause by all the money they are kicking over to the friends and masters of a corrupt political system.
Yes sir I totally agree as usual. Let's quit giving money to any other country, and to illegal aliens. What a joke.
Shapiro? Never heard of the Jew twat, who cares what he thinks or says… go ahead, kill SS and Medicare, all it will do is speed up the collapse real fast imo. And plenty of fires would be burning in DC and all other capitals, would be fun to watch, sit back and let the sheep and gub’mint employees off each other. People who have faith and family will protect their own and tribalism will return. A much better option than this society and shit hole country. BTW, the illegals are dipping their toes in your benefits, and we just watch it all happen like a bunch of fucking cucks. As long as we have our phones and influencers the sheep will do zip.
In an article March 12, 2023, about a year ago, Nikki Haley was calling for raising the retirement age, the article says that in the previous week, at the CPAC meeting, Trump mentioned that some in the party wanted to raise the minimum age to 70, 75 even 80.
Haley is still calling for it, as we've heard.
I'm not a Leftist and am fairly Conservative, but, the Republicucks are scum. They are spineless and all about themselves. This leads me to Satanist Anton Lavey. In his Satanic Bible, a general theme is the indulgence of the flesh. Me, mine and a middle finger to the world. The individual and self as god. The greed orientation is sadistic and over the top. F you, it's me and my desires, as long as you don't hurt anybody, so he says...
The years go on, I hear about Libertarianism. It sounds kind of reasonable but it starts getting "Hurray for me, F you," like an over the top selfishness wrapped in self-righteous individualism. It almost sounded "Satanic." I've heard this before.
I looked up Anton Levey on Wikipedia, is he a libertarian? Well, one of his influences was Ayn Rand.
So the Republicucks say, f 'em, ain't my problem. That's kind of evil.
During the Dubya administration, George Carlin famously said "They're coming for your Social Security...and you know what...they'll get it."
Medicare is already more than half privatized by the vulture of Wall Street. Medicare Advantage plans fraudulently take over $140 Billion a year (more than is paid in in premiums from seniors for Medicare) and that is a conservative number...draining Trillion not for health care, but for profit. But draining the Trust fund for private profit.....well, here I go again on my soap box. What other System would do that but the beloved Capitalist system.
Capitalism's ONLY tenant is to protect shareholder wealth. Not the public. Not consumers. Not support communities. Protect shareholder wealth. So what do you expect from such a System? And please don't banish me to the Corn Field....even though I am pointing out facts about the beloved System.
Back in the '80's, when I was working a real job and still fairly young and dumb, I was not dumb enough to know that "Social Security" is nothing but a Ponzi scheme, and I did not expect to see one red cent of all the wealth I gave them in the '80's. I would get a paycheck for $900, which included 30 hours of overtime, and I would see that nearly over $100 went to Social Security and Income Tax. After everybody had their cut, I would go home with about $720. And of course, the instant I started putting gas in the motorcycle, more was going up in taxes.
Social Security is a gimmick to keep a person invested in the grid, invested in gov't, and invested in the political game. (Let's vote for the person who is going to give us the most free stuff.) It is Welfare for older people.
I could see, maybe, having a program for those disabled and those too weak or sick to work- but that should apply at any age. Why would a perfectly able-bodied person- at any age, want a handout?
Now, being totally off the grid, I don't expect to see one dime of social security. And if I did go on the grid, they would probably want to know what I was doing the last 30 years. Probably thinking I was working for a drug cartel, or training in terrorist boot camp.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. You are our only hope!
You nailed it again! I am on Medicare and just had an outpatient surgical procedure. The bill was $13,000. This was the Medicare adjusted price. If you were paying cash without the negotiated adjustments it would be double. I am relatively well off but I could not afford that. My wife is in South America taking care of her mother. She had an MRI performed and it cost $100 without any insurance. Yes, a walkin off the street MRI for $100! All I have to say is there are some real elitist assholes in our wonderful country. Sorry I can't be more positive. Bless you and your readers.
"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.
"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not."
"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigor, then?" said Scrooge.
"Both very busy, sir."
"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."
"Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavoring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?"
"Nothing!" Scrooge replied.
"You wish to be anonymous?"
"I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned -- they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
- The Republican Party of the United States of America 2024
They Vaxx killed many of the elderly so they won't pay them the thing, and keep aall the money they owe them!!!. And many of them happen to have pensions they paid into aall their lives. Yeah, the Alphabet agencies swallow a WhoOole lots of CASH. And they are as useless as can be. There is so much to talk about in this regard..
Trump is considering Kristi Noem (gov of S.D.) for VP. She just signed a rather confusing bill into law
defining anti-semitic acts. I'm not sure exactly what it entails, but it sounds like pandering to some Zionist entity, Evangelicals, and neo-cons, while ignoring and insulting the outraged sensibilities of the
rest of the people concerned with current atrocities.
https://www.capjournal.com/news/noem-signs-historic-anti-semitism-bill-into-law/article_a4b33f2a-dd48-11ee-84ea-03150986621c.html
All the front-runners are pro-Israel and stooges of the biggest cartel in history.
Next they are banning Tic Toc for the same reason, that young people are catching on to the war machine grift. Maybe they don't relish getting drafted. I'm sure that inflation is kicking their asses
hardest and that they are losing what little faith they had in this system; maybe even getting skeptical
of the never ending whackzinnes while watching their friends collapse one after the other.
Meanwhile they see people like Kirk Cousins signing a four year contract for 180 million plus 28 million in "dead money" whatever that is... Maybe that younger generation will be wiser than the boomers after all and not fall for every grift hook line and sinker.