Message from @Grenade123
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Daily beast so grain of salt
Its also entirely from the democrats according to this, not that republicans would speak out if it was true
No crap
welcome to the week before 9-11 where the Pentagon had a billion dollars unaccounted for.
`Department of Defense, the government’s largest single cost center—the Pentagon receives two of every three federal tax dollars collected` this is true if you only count discretionary spending.
The majority of federal spending is not discretionary.
I have to point this out because I hate the myth that all spending problems are due to the military.
God Medicare and Social Security are going to kill us..
Obviously the military should be held accountable for the money it spends and should follow all relevant rules. An audit is long overdue. But blaming the military for deficits is the government spending equivalent of 'The Wage Gap'
The entire Government could use a good audit when it comes to spending
Who audits the government?
Either the GAO or they outsource to a private firm.
Social Security has its own dedicated revenue stream.
Medicare does too.
And they are well protected by the people who paid all thier lives into it and are now either getting the reward for all thier work or are within a couple decades from doing so after decades of paying into it.
Probably not the best way of looking at it. People pay in to pay for other people's social security.
When they get older, the younger generation pays them.
@DrYuriMom by dedicated revenue stream you mean young people currently working to pay back into the funds that were raid from it?
SS is a ponzi scheme at this point.
i have 0 hope of seeing any of that money.
just another tax for the filth in power to use on sending young troops to die over oil, prop up their tax havens with "grant" money, bring in foreign workers, encourage shipping jobs overseas, and for bombing American citizens without due process.
Tim covered this today
“ Maybe they’re just bad people”
By Michelle Goldberg on NYT
NYT article claiming that Trump supporters that aren’t “ belligerent nationalist “ or believers of “ racist conspiracy theories “ are just evil opportunist. So pretty much all Trump Supports are bad people according to this.
http://archive.today/TBche
we are back to this?
because "bag of deplorables" really won them the election
if you're gonna say social security has a dedicated, protected revenue stream, we need to move this conversation to fake news room.
Lol
I mean we only spent a trillion dollars on it.
Also Grenade - I keep saying, 2020 is gonna be 2016-2 The Revenge of the Deplorables.
they are already starting it.
@Grenade123, I am very aware of SS structure. I've been paying for previous generations with the expectation the generations after me will pay for me. That's the social contract. My retirement age has already been moved back two years to acknowledge the fact that there are more retirees per worker than there used to be. There are many ways that social security can be adjusted to keep it solvent and healthy without needing to raid the mythological "trust fund" which would just mean requiring the general fund to pay for it. If we just require FICA taxes to apply to all income and not have it capped, that would solve a lot. I currently am not paying FICA because of the cap. I haven't all month nor will I next month. That's wrong. I and everyone else should pay FICA no matter how much we make.
Changes like that will make sure SS is there for you.
i don't trust the government to give me any money. Even if i ended up needing welfare.
I trust my generation and the ones before mine to keep SS real. It's people 45 and older that feel a real investment in it and will keep it alive.
That said, I cashed out the private pension I participated in earlier in my career (for about 6 years) and which was closed because I certainly don't expect that to happen.
I'm trusting but not stupid :p
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/after-inadequate-briefing-saudi-arabia-senate-advances-bill-end-u-n941386 looks like we are getting closing to ending this war in Yemen
