it really is something that almost a century later, oligarchs and economic royalists still see social security as an affront that must be destroyed
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Larry Glickman
Fyi, my new piece in @bostonreview.bsky.social about the history of calling Social Security a “Ponzi scheme,” and how attacks on Social Security have often marked the opening wedge of a broader war on public goods.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/soc...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/soc...
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They have the “cancer” programming infecting them – infinite consumption. All rich people do.
That’s why we cannot understand them. Their minds are warped by money and power, total nonsense
Every Dept targeted was investigating Musk
How do you spell "CORRUPTION"?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/j-p-morgan-economist-sees-072220931.html
But Elon wants another zero in his net worth and Trump wants Canada so...
staying wealthy (and in power) means using all means to make sure others don’t get to be.
a billionaire is the natural nemesis to democracy and to humanity in general.
Near a hundred years on and the kids/grandkids of those same pissed off rich people are funding our current coup.
Am thinking we prolly should've jailed em the first time around.
Really could have used follow through after thwarting it.
@jbpritzker.bsky.social
The rich paid their taxes,
Employers paid current cost of living wages,
States funded K12 education equally, &
The federal govt incentivized the transition to a green/sustainable economy,
Then we probably wouldn't need social security as a primary retirement income source.
Still so threatened by a social welfare program that ensures American seniors aren't left penniless & homeless? Sure, only if you're willfully oblivious to reality or a Nazi (possibly in denial of the latter, but if so, you prolly need to come out of another closet first).
The last fool who tried it was Bush 43 – net result two Obama terms, so coulda been worse.
money making gambit, cuz yunno, the working people who built this nation are just insects and the overlords are our benevolent masters.
Why oh why would you take away something YOU worked for too?
The GOP is the party of loons.
-every slimy billionaire trying to steal from the most vulnerable people
we need more of those.
And I bet we outnumber them by a couple people or two.
It's not.
In a Game, an NPC is a "Non Playing Character", in other words, set dressing, expendable, not real.
Everyone knows the only moral thing to do is let poor elderly and disabled persons die in the gutter. It's God's Will!
I think we’ve all survived the cap increase.