reap the 5%+ rates of return others do...yet they perform necessary jobs for their whole lives, often in states that refuse to allow minimum wages to keep pace with the incomes of those accumulating it with "Compound Interest". Their plight isn't due to lack of effort or desire...it's lack of opportunities and a tax system that doesn't ask the wealthiest to pay their fair share...as was done shortly after WWII and during the Clinton years...when EVERYONE benefitted and national debt was manageable.
Good for you, Cheeks, but there are tens of millions who have no prayer of being able to invest and
Replies to: "Good for you, Cheeks, but there are tens of millions who have no prayer of being able to invest and"
- Time for everyone to get up to speed on the Pros and Cons of Privatizing Social Security...and what [LINK]
- TyroneIrish - 8:38pm 3/20/25
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- Our biggest issue with SS is increased human life spans. - Curly1918 - 3:18am 3/21/25
- As Robert Reich comments...the age requirement was raised once already...it can be done again, as - TyroneIrish - 2:25pm 3/21/25
- Jesus, Reich is worse than Maddow. Move on, you pitiful weasel. [NT]
- jakers - 10:25pm 3/20/25
- Care to disagree with what he said…or is it too far above you? [NT]
- TyroneIrish - 3:17am 3/21/25
- You're presuming I read it. I don't care what he has to say, it's nonsense. As for S.S.... - jakers - 11:03am 3/21/25
- While I'm open to a slight increase in the eligibility age, I agree with you on the rest.. - TyroneIrish - 2:42pm 3/21/25
- I'm not a fan of raising the eligibility age, unless we do it via some Means Testing. - jakers - 3:42pm 3/21/25
- It's a part of the negotiation...but the CAP needs to go. [NT] - TyroneIrish - 10:33pm 3/21/25
- It's a microcosm of the challenges we face for stupid reasons - iairishcheeks - 3:54pm 3/21/25
- Good for you, Cheeks, but there are tens of millions who have no prayer of being able to invest and - TyroneIrish - 10:31pm 3/21/25
- I grew up below the poverty line, Tyrone. - iairishcheeks - 12:06am 3/22/25
- For the second time..."Good for You"...now did you read any of the Pros and Cons for Privatizing SS? - TyroneIrish - 11:28am 3/22/25
- I grew up below the poverty line, Tyrone. - iairishcheeks - 12:06am 3/22/25
- Oh, I hate that, too. - jakers - 4:18pm 3/21/25
- Agreed 100%. Go Elon, unfuck the system. [NT] - iairishcheeks - 6:00pm 3/21/25
- Good for you, Cheeks, but there are tens of millions who have no prayer of being able to invest and - TyroneIrish - 10:31pm 3/21/25
- I'm not a fan of raising the eligibility age, unless we do it via some Means Testing. - jakers - 3:42pm 3/21/25
- While I'm open to a slight increase in the eligibility age, I agree with you on the rest.. - TyroneIrish - 2:42pm 3/21/25
- You're presuming I read it. I don't care what he has to say, it's nonsense. As for S.S.... - jakers - 11:03am 3/21/25
- . [NT] - TyroneIrish - 2:56am 3/21/25
- Care to disagree with what he said…or is it too far above you? [NT]
- TyroneIrish - 3:17am 3/21/25
- Robert Reich? Was Karl Marx not available? - mtthawk1 - 9:40pm 3/20/25
- As lacking in substance as ever…you are consistent if nothing else ;-) - TyroneIrish - 3:16am 3/21/25
- Wall Street has your back. They have always looked after ordinary Joes. No worries. /s/ [NT] - ND521 - 10:10pm 3/20/25
- Our biggest issue with SS is increased human life spans. - Curly1918 - 3:18am 3/21/25