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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
Social security was designed to give the MIDDLE CLASS a small amount of stability. In other words a base from which innovation and setting up small businesses could be more imagined and acted upon. It was (and should be in the future) a building block for UPWARD MOBILITY. Today the statistics for UPWARD MOBILITY in the US are VERY dim and discouraging. The top ONE ( 1 ) percent have more WEALTH than the bottom Ninety ( 90 ) percent. All the advantages that we have in the US today were built upon MIDDLE CLASS factory workers in the 40s to 70s when UNIONS were strong. Today UNIONS are decimated by the upper 1% that OUTSOURCED US industry and WEALTH to China (we make almost nothing in factories today). We no longer have VOCATIONAL High Schools so that the poor have only one avenue for improvement - crime or joining the MILITARY.
.........My statements are proven by the generally known FACT that since 1970 each generation has been LESS SUCCESSFUL (and wealthy) than the prior generation. Today the US and Russia have one major thing in common.......OLIGARCHY !
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Where to begin, SS was to be a supplement for peoples old age, human nature has encouraged many to depend too much on it, or entirely, making for a rather meager existence. This crutch has been expanded by politicians making it ever more of a general welfare fund . Making promises is always politically easy, the hard part of funding is always kicked down the road. The western democracies practicing free market capitalism have produced the highest standard of living for the largest number of humans of any time or place in history. This is because of the demonstrated success of people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, they and many lessor innovators have supplied this , we are beneficiaries not victims. The Oh So Egalitarian sounding ideas of Marx produce governmental systems that will not allow individual success, concentrate central power, and well power corrupts taking away individual freedom. After WW2 the USA was in the best of all situations its economy and industry not only intact but stimulated by war production, the American worker was in the right place at the right time. The world moves on , countries rebuild , undeveloped countries improve the result, COMPETITION. How much is the Hourly wages worth of someone doing a job that can be learned in a few hours and done by any reasonably fit , intelligent human being that has ever lived ?