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January 23rd, 2024, 07:31 PM #11
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Gender confusion is a mental illness
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January 24th, 2024, 01:58 PM #12
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Yes, pension plans, another great example of how much easier things were for you. Something you had that by and large doesn't exist anymore.
Plain and simple: you played the game by a different, much easier set of rules. The path you took to a comfortable life and retirement doesn't exist anymore. Your contemporary peer could work precisely as hard as you did, for precisely as long, doing the same job, and they would end up in a very different, much less financially stable, position.
Failing to recognize this reality and instead falsely placing all of the blame on the people you expect to pay for the prosperous times you enjoyed is not a good look at all.
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January 24th, 2024, 02:10 PM #13
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January 25th, 2024, 01:52 AM #14
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And you never paid taxes to support anyone, didja, Walleye!
There are two kinds of guns. Those I have acquired, and those I hope to.
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January 25th, 2024, 08:50 AM #15
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January 25th, 2024, 01:36 PM #16
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Your gloating. Your stereotyping of today's workers. Your implications that current working generations want everything for nothing, when in reality they'd be delighted to get the benefits and opportunities you had that are no longer available to them.
You made the posts.
Since you and Bang brought up taxes, let's use that as an example. Social Security and Medicare taxes were lower during your working years, and had <much> lower income caps. Workers today are paying significantly more of their paycheck into these programs, which directly benefit you. Furthermore, the "trust" for these programs is primarily composed of IOUs - loans the government made to themselves to fund deficit spending that current and future workers have to pay back. So not only are today's workers paying higher percentages of these taxes, with much higher income caps, they're also paying back the IOUs that went out during the prosperous times you enjoyed... times we shouldn't have been accumulating debt but nonetheless were.
As I stated earlier, I recognize that you individually could not do much to stop this government largess. The least you could do is admit that you benefited from many advantages that no longer exist, instead of trying to pretend that your hard work is what differentiates you from people who work hard today.
Instead of saying that you "worked long and hard and saved" (implying that today's workers do not) and that you "did my part, carried my load, paid my taxes and paid my bills. That's more than today's 'worker's can toot about." (directly stating that today's workers don't work hard, pay taxes, or pay their bills), you could recognize that you worked during a time when you were able to find suitable employment without first going $50-$100k into debt for education, had retirement benefits like pension plans, had a significantly lower tax burden, and had notably lower housing costs-to-income ratios, among many other benefits... many of which were brought about by deficit spending with costs that were pushed down to future generations.
You may not have been able to prevent these changes from happening, but you can at least recognize that the advantageous path to success that was offered to you simply doesn't exist anymore. It certainly would be a better look than pretending that it's all due to the laziness of today's working folk.
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January 25th, 2024, 03:22 PM #17
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