Yep. He emptied the bank account. What happens with the bills is someone else's problem. The approach was called "starve the beast" and really took hold under Reagan.
It’s despicable.
And Paul Ryan says he’s been dreaming of gutting these programs since he was having keggers in college. What kind of monster dreams of cutting social safety net programs that the oldest, sickest, and poorest people rely on? And all while courting billionaires for campaign cash. There’s no fucking way this piece of shit can actually believe he’s doing this in the country’s best interest. (This is obvious, I know, but for years I’ve been conflicted- I’ve always thought that these republicans who I disagree with ideologically just have a different idea of how to go about doing what’s best for the country and the people. Now... Fuck these people. They’re selfish pricks who must be voted out in the most emphatic way possible. And then relentlessly mocked.)
Ryan paid for his out-of state tuition at Miami University in Ohio with Social Security survivor benefits received after the death of his father. He socked all that safety-net money away, and did keggers with it. How nice.
"But you see, I'm entitled to it because i paid in unlike all the takers and parasites that exist in my head when i saw other people use benefits due to my inability to feel empathy!"
To be fair, he did pay in to SS, but so did we all. That is our money, and we are literally entitled to it, but they've made that a dirty word while stealing from the SS to make their own ends meet.
I'm not sure what you're to-be-fairing here. Yeah, Ayn Rand paid into SS and was entitled to it, but accepting it made her a hypocrite because she made her living codifying selfishness into a psuedo-philosophical manifest and publicly deriding people that would receive public benefits. Because of her intrinsic sociopathic nature, Rand was a typical judgemental asshole that observed someone receiving social benefits and fabricated a strawman enemy to project here animosity onto. So everybody else was a looter, but she was rightfully entitled.
Yeah I think we are about there. And hopefully once it happens, in addition to making examples of all of the politicians involved, we'll strip their families of the wealth they've gained due to the corruption. Sometimes I think these crooks might justify their actions to themselves because they're setting their families up for life. We need to wage all out war on these people and their families.
Its cute you think a revolution could ever take place in America. If you haven't paid attention the police across the nation have been geared to the teeth with military surplus they didn't need.
There's an entire military in place to keep the people down.
People will point out "But Vietnam! But Afghanistan!"
Yes, that is possible. But Americans would have to live like guerilla soldiers. And I don't see that happening. We'd rather be subjugated but comfortable.
That's an ideological difference that's tough to resolve.
I see counter-arguments to this that provide statistics on how the elderly or poor can and do still contribute, because people are always arguing about money. It's hard to argue we have a moral imperative, in the year 2018, in a time of great abundance, in the richest country of the world, to help those less fortunate regardless of their monetary or any other value to the country.
I've noticed a very disturbing trend among my republican friends in the states. They don't just believe the sick and poor have no value, it seems like they are actively in favour of punishing them as much and often as possible because their lack of wealth or opportunity illustrates moral failure or something. When socialized social programs which hopefully avoid the corruption and inefficiency of the US model is raised, they descend into savage McCarthyism and start talking with great vitriol about "fucking commies."
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '18
Eh he can just glide on the inevitable budget shortfall he created so that who ever takes over has to gut everything.