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Originally Posted by Clip-Clop
The Great Depression is over. The day the federal government entered the charity business was the first step down a very slippery slope.
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Social Security and Medicare are not charities. They are not "giveaways". We all contribute during our lives, and we all benefit.
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Call me callous but there are privately run charities, church run charities and families who take care of their own.
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Yeah, well that didn't work so well in the past, resulting in seniors starving and dying due to lack of health care and a stipend in their old age. Being a caring, charitable Christian country, who worries about our poor and our elderly, we decided that we would all contribute a bit, so all of us would have a fall-back insurance safety in our old age.
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People donate ("wealthy" people like my wife and I) to pay for the services that are provided. Nobody needs the fed telling us what to do with our money. Grow up.
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Get out. You don't like the way this country was created, and what our American values are as a society, and you don't want to contribute, but want to take all the benefits -
move elsewhere.
Try creating Galt's Gulch, and see how long you last.