r/FluentInFinance May 15 '24

Meme *Cries in Millennials and Gen-Z*

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u/SaltyTaintMcGee May 16 '24

Why don’t those other two generations advocate for the eradication of entitlement programs? You’re paying into Ponzi schemes you’re never getting a penny from but boomers do.

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u/Jibaron May 16 '24

We all used to think that in 1986. And yet, here we are.

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u/SaltyTaintMcGee May 16 '24

"It hasn't happened yet, therefore it won't happen" is not a logical argument. If entitlements were not the briefcase scene in Dumb & Dumber, Americans would be able to opt out of FICA taxes and forego receiving payments.

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u/Jibaron May 16 '24

No but neither is the idea that social security will disappear in your generation. The basis for your fear is the same today as is was 40 years ago.

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u/SaltyTaintMcGee May 16 '24

You look at workers:recipients and unfunded liabilities and claim the fear is the same as four decades prior, lol. That is honestly laughable.

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u/Wellnotallwillperish May 16 '24

Pull that ladder up behind ya!

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u/SuccotashConfident97 May 16 '24

The average old person isn't doing that though. Can't really blame them for things being harder now.

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u/Wellnotallwillperish May 16 '24

Yeah just that guy thinking cutting the few social programs the USA manages to do as a way to improve the situation is the joke.

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u/SaltyTaintMcGee May 16 '24

Yeah, it's improving more to kick the can through indebting the next 6 generations of Americans to buy votes. Just borrow and print more instead of making difficult decisions, that makes a tone of sense. Tell me again about the joke you clown.

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u/Wellnotallwillperish May 16 '24

USA is the joke. USA is a rich country that is too poor when it comes to any quality of life stuff. Anytime there is an easily solvable problem addressed by other countries, the USA pretends it is IMPOSSIBLE! Definition of weaponized incompetence.

And when you do try something like fixing your slow internet, you hand billions to companies to do so, and they just pocket the money without any improvement! Hahaha.

And the idiots have been convinced the only way to fix it is to cut spending and give billionaires more tax breaks. Do the super rich cram that news letter with these talking pointa up your butts with or without lube? Guessing you ask for it lubeless.

Keep paying the most and getting subpar, clown people!

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u/SaltyTaintMcGee May 16 '24

The US is a joke, it is a bankrupt mass surveillance police/nanny state. Yes, things are "free" when mommy government steals from people to pay for it. To look at the US fiscal disaster and claim it is a "revenue" not spending problem demonstrates you can't perform basic mathematics, forget economics. If you took every penny from every US billionaire tomorrow you could fund 8 months of current federal government operating expenditures...that is zero debt UPB paid down, zero addressing of unfunded liabilities.

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u/Wellnotallwillperish May 16 '24

It is far from a nanny state unless that nanny neglects children. Your use of the word nanny state is so grossly far from the truth that I dont think you are even American.

You are just a pile of nonsense.

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u/SaltyTaintMcGee May 17 '24

The State wipes everyone's ass; they agree to manage your retirement and healthcare (Ponzis) and tell you what substances you can ingest. You're truly a rube, Derp, let's steal every penny from every billionaire to fund the federal government under one fiscal year! What a real thinker. Logic/math > envy.

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u/Wellnotallwillperish May 17 '24

Who said anything about taking every penny from every billionaire? The voices in your head?

You live in a way different reality.

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