Quote Originally Posted by VanChilds View Post
Thats pretty interesting about SS. I did some research and it seems your pretty much right on. Odd that politicians from both parties and the media give the idea that its failing.
I'm Kirkland Laing. I'm always right about everything.

Both parties have people who get paid big contributions by Wall Street who are desperate to get their hands on social security. Huge profits for everybody apart from the people the money belongs to.

After Jimmy Hoffa died the US government took the running of th Teamsters' pension fund away from the Teamsters' union and gave it to Wall Street to run. Over the years it's been run by seven different firms and none of them managed to make as much returns on it as Hoffa did when he was using it as a slush fund for the Mafia. Some even lost lots of money. Funny that.

In my last post, the median family income is $50 000, that's the 150 millionth household total income. The US median wage is $35 000. And flat taxes as espoused by Republicans like Steve Forbes are all bs, they're just yet another tactic of the Republican party to shift the burden of taxation from inherited income to earned income as they wouldn't tax investment income at all, the tax would all be on consumption. Since low/median/above median people consume as much (more the last few years) than they earn, they'd be paying taxes on 100% of their earnings. Guts like Forbes make almost all their income from investments and dividends which are never actually included in these bs flat tax schemes. A bunch of elites who want current earners to pay all the tax and leave people with billions in investments to pay nothing. America should be a country that does the opposite, when it has been it's grown much much faster economy-wise.

Healthcare to follow.