re: The ACA: 7 Years Later

I thought the consensus was that healthcare spending dropped because of the tepid Obama economy? There's links to this effect all over Google but I suspect I'll be called a liar by the true believers.

quote:

---

What a success story.

---

Yes, it is some story...if the US Military were as successful as Social Security is there would be no conflict in the world and John Lennon's "Imagine" would be reality and not a dream....

Prior to Social Security somewhere in the neighborhood of 90% of orphans and the disabled lived in unimaginable poverty....not the poverty we know today but poverty the likes of which no American can even conceive of.....today, with Social Security, less than 10% of Orphans and the disabled live in poverty....and that 10% of Americans live better than most developed nations middle class.

People of retirement age were living in the same kind of poverty as orphans and the disabled at about a 50% clip....that number is now lower than 10% also....and the "poverty" that that 10% suffers under looks more like the middle class in America prior to social security than poverty....


The only problem with Social Security is that it is a BOOMIN success, one paid for BY LABOR FOR LABOR....and is therefore something that must be destroyed because it smacks of collectivism, which it blessedly is, and examples of succesful collectivism can't be tolerated when you are sharing a narrative of free markets are always the only answer and collectivism always leads to soviet style communism.

SO why is that the GOP and the right must villify SS and what is their dream? To fleece each and every SS recipient out of a measly 1% management fee for their cronies...and that 1% fee will cost, on average, right at $100K for every working man and woman in America over a 40 year career....social security does the same thing for about .07% administrative costs....costs bared be WORKING PEOPLE and never a dime coming from federal income tax revenue or any other sort of federal tax revenue OTHER than payroll taxes...and, this is where the smoke and mirrors comes in....there is NO RISK involved in the .07% administration account that is Social Security....it has paid 100% of its promises over its lifetime...there is not a retirement account in existence that can even come close to that claim...and it provides income for disabled people and orphans...something NO OTHER retirement account offers. The banking industry is fricking salivating at the idea of getting their hands on social security so they can pillage it like they do 401k's.

Finally social security is a promise made from working people to working people....I work today when you aren't able and when I get there those younger than I will do the same...and it works like a charm...and politicians on both sides of the aisle can't stand the thought of OUR MONEY lying around in case WE NEED it so they steal it left and right and use it for all sorts of shite that should be paid for with TAX REVENUE but raising taxes to pay for shite like fighting ill advised wars is bad for business if you are a politician so you look for the money elsewhere...and you know you have already planted the seed that social security is bad so why not use that money and make it a reality....your minions on the right will carry the water for you....

quote:

---

.if the Military alone would pay back what it has been handed from that fund it would be in even better shape

---

Maybe we could forget about NATO since the USSR is gone. And quit droning people. Those two things would save a fortune.

quote:

---

Maybe we could forget about NATO since the USSR is gone. And quit droning people. Those two things would save a fortune.

---

Im all in.....quit footing the bill almost single handedly for NATO and guess what? European manufacturers are looking at a corporate tax rate that would make the US Corporate tax rate look very favorable....because without some serious and immediate spending on the military by Europe Russia would exact its pound of flesh very quickly....but of course the GOP believes in level playing fields but loves the idea of increased military spending which makes the playing field anything but level....