stjames1_53 (03-01-2021)
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"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
- Thucydides
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Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
Chris (03-01-2021),Sybil Ludington (03-01-2021)
stjames1_53 (03-01-2021)
Well said. Yes I agree that states should have more powers with respect to social services, but the problem is such services have become so high in demand, because of the amount of people who need it, but also so expensive, considering market pressures, not to mention the federal necessity due to intrastate political pressures that it all out of control. We just didn't have this problem until actually the end of the Vietnam war when the US became the new refugee camp for anybody and everybody. I have to say however that I maintain that federal intervention is simply the result of public demand. Our bread has two sides and both need butter in order for us to become what we were set out to be.
What are termed as "entitlements", SS and medicare, are really not, because we pay into them, should be, in my view, one of those great things about the American dream. You've worked all your life, you've contributed, now you deserve a secure retirement. Costs?? much of that cost is under market control as we have had an out of control market system for the last 50 years. Now that baby boomers (the last US population boom) are goin out, THAT population is taken it on the chin just for being born at the wrong time? This country has more money than we know what to do with. The problem is the way it's allocated and corruption has such great cover with divisive politics that nobody can really follow the ball. We sold our country's ability to put people to work with good jobs, [i]and high contributions to SS and medicare for dividends and profit margins. It's no wonder that were squeezed. In order to get back to the constitution, we have to have better control of our money.
Sybil Ludington (03-01-2021)
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.“ - Benjamin Franklin.
“When people get used to preferential treatment equal treatment seems like discrimination.” - Thomas Sowell
Abby08 (03-01-2021),Sybil Ludington (03-01-2021)