Will the electorate accept the elderly dying for lack of money?

Hmm? Probably. Once the electorate is younger.

I think Penn Jillette had a good line here: "If you want to help people, then help them"

I mean I keep hearing that what has to happen to make the country better is that "the old racists need to die off"

if you personally feel that there are elderly people who need financial help, then help them

that's compassion

I do but I can't help everyone

So you would make other people help everyone.

no one is expecting you to

and that's a noble thing. but using the force of government to redistribute wealth is not noble.

And in a world as you described I need to think of my own retirement

Yes. Start saving.

do you not do that already?

I already have a fairly healthy IRA.

Oh, I have

Social security cant possibly cover all living expenses

Like I said, the Brazil bubble was very nice to me

but if you helped one person, and everyone else did the same, we'd run out of charity cases

Among other things

Boeing stock

If Boeing tanks I'm sunk

Oh, shoot, I need to move more of the IRA into foreign stocks to take advantage of growing Brazilian economy, you're right.

You might wanna get out of boeing slowly

Their 737 prototype had a major incident thats not boding well

Boeing is still behind much of the surveillance tech that will make for a secure border

Boeing is a leader in border tech

So go Trump go :p

How has your IRA growth been in the past 2 years?

Mine's been *pretty* good.

Nice until the trade war bullshit

The best thing for my IRA was the fact I carried a lot of cash in 2007 and dropped it in the market in 2010. Obama was better for me than Trump by far.

So far at least. If only Trump would be disabused of destroying the trade economy.

I honestly can't figure out what'll happen now.

Whatll happen now is the US will negotiate with china and europe

No party wants a trade war and all stand to lose if one occurs, even if they dont directly participate in it

China has shown some cracks.

Some companies that had been planning to.open up shop there and move facilities have started looking elsewhere already

?circlejerk

Remember the time in the 19th century when a Chinese peasant lead a revolution claiming to be the spiritual brother of Jesus after gaining a cursory knowledge of Christianity? Fun times.

I'm inspired

/s