That isn't dogma. It's based on human nature and the nature of governments that survive on winning elections.
No, its Ayn Randian pseudophilosophy and little more than opinion trumphed up as a proclimation on the mount.
"And do we need to bring up Medicare and Medicaid again?"
Every side has a boogeyman hyperbole. You have yours. Goody. I have mine.
I do not use the outliers to argue logical cases. Thats your forte and I'll leave you to it.
"remember that all the evidence of history tells you the exact opposite will be true."
When appropriately filtered through the right ideological lense, and drawn from select sources and taken out of context. Sure.
I'm not going to get into a 'big picture' paradigmatic argument with you, Brosz. Suffice to say that as a former 'pro' in that area, I reject your methodology, I find your starting premises absurd, I don't agree on the significance of your data points- etc. And whenever we do get into big picture arguments, you run off to the 'good-ole-boy-wannabe' hill and start slinging around proclimations about 'all truth is simple' and 'you high-falutin' academics blowing gas at eachother' and 'college boy!' crap. I feel like you probably feel when you deal with the math/science illiterates.
Frankly, I very much enjoyed this thread and found it informative, and I don't want to spoil it. You have last word, and do me a favor and don't use it as an excuse to provoke.
Davin :.
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- Serious Insecurities concerning Social Security 'Reform'
- My plan to reform Social Security
- Thats actually a pretty good idea, IMO
- If it "over-funds" the system, just cut the tax rate. Simple. (n/t)
- The system is currently overfunded as it is
- Not if it is to become a VESTED system with assets backing liabilities.
- re: The system is currently overfunded as it is
- I could live with that.
- Thats actually a pretty good idea, IMO
- Not to mention the dark secret that people are only just realizing..
- The only true fix for SS
- More to the point
- re: No big secret.
- Tom hit the BS buzzer
- So the fix is to simply confiscate more and more money?
- Further, they always claim that it must get worse and worse
- Bartleby the Scrivener
- Does anyone else see the political weirdness here?
- Not my problem, Tom, that you have a propensity for strawman arguments and distorting positions you disagree with
- More on the Amazing Vanishing Social Security Crisis
- The DNC choice to take the position that after all the years of claiming there was a crisis, now there isn't one, will not hold up. (n/t)
- again
- correction, misread something Tom said
- More on the Amazing Vanishing Social Security Crisis
- Not my problem, Tom, that you have a propensity for strawman arguments and distorting positions you disagree with
- Tom hit the BS buzzer
- What Ed said.
- Very good points
- My plan to reform Social Security