Message from @Tohob
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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
I wonder why that is?!
Hm, I have no idea...
maybe because of the bad 2015 decision to let in millions of black peoples into the EU and them beeing pretty awful people??
and raping or stabbing the native population....
that might have something to do with the "racism" against blacks...
no that would be dumb. it's obviously because whites are genetically predisposed to hating darkies
and i think it's time we started looking at some kind of solution to the white problem
guys...this may surprise you but...european elites are racists
oof
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/11/27/about-that-fundraiser-linda-sarsour-held-after-pittsburgh-shooting-most-of-the-n2536567?fbclid=IwAR1qJzmLvZsxSmcZDCygSjMoj1eax4a2NIZNtVQX_PVMqLpho-Glc0T2QyU
According to this article: Linda Sarsour raised $240k after the synagogue shooting, and only $10k went towards Jewish cemetery repairs, and $155k went towards the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh.
such an anti-semite
They're blaming GM closures on Trump now
Even though they are closing down here in Canada too
And it's a Canadian publication
Trump is the left's scapegoat
Meanwhile, Trump is threatening some credits and subsidies GM received over the closures.
Trying to bully GM into opening other plants. If the UAW doesn't flip by 2020, they're nuts. This is exactly what the UAW would want in a politician.
The GM closures were in the works for a long time. While workers were getting laid off and production slowed, new factories were being built in Mexico. They should have seen this coming
Really, GM is moving out of the small car market. Ford did something similar. These are the small car plants.
The question is why they don't want to retool.
Except the plant here in Canada made the Chevy Silverado and it was still shut down
Supposedly, they're looking to "look to the next big thing" and will probably put the money into research. Which is not necessarily a bad idea. But I think there's alot of doubts.
To say Trump is somehow behind the closures is clueless. I wonder what is being said around the UAW. They have to be noticing.
They said the next best thing is electric and autonomous vehicles. The Chevy volt was already being built in the US and the existing factories could have been adjusted for autonomous vehicles.
Yeah, there's reasons to have doubts. As I said, it's probably research. So they'd be putting the money to the University of Michigan or something.
But GM can get away with paying workers almost nothing and in a currency worth much less than the US dollar. They cost less than the robots replacing workers up here.