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Why is Social Security and all benefits to ordinary taxpayers always the target?
My headline is, for most people and especially for the status quo, simply unthinkable. How could anyone seriously suggest that the Federal Government take over and sell off the assets of two giant financial services companies?
To which I say: why the hell not? It makes perfect sense and is a much better thing to do than continuously threaten ordinary Americans with slashing the meager benefits they get from their hard-earned tax dollars.
Why not balance the budget on the backs of the undeserving rich?
Americans Have Been Passive
Right now, a million French citizens are on strike and marching in the streets, protesting a government plan to raise the retirement age of the people who work for a living in that country. This proposal is allegedly aimed at fiscal responsibility, but the French know that’s bullshit. They know that idle ultra-wealthy rich people — like Macron and the people he represents — live off of the wealth produced by ordinary French citizens.
And they know that the ultra-wealthy contribute less and less while more and more is demanded — and taken from — the actual productive French citizens. Now, Macron…
