That's how it is in many countries, maybe most. I found that to be true in SE Asia and South America. If it comes down to life or death almost everybody will work. Even the illiterates in Vietnam grow vegetables on the banks of the Saigon River.
How would you balance the budget?
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That's how it is in many countries, maybe most. I found that to be true in SE Asia and South America. If it comes down to life or death almost everybody will work. Even the illiterates in Vietnam grow vegetables on the banks of the Saigon River.
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Owl has a brain injury? That explains a lot
That is why you have disability insurance. If you took every nickel you had confiscated for socialist insecurity and invested it on your own you would have had more than enough to retire and you could leave it to your heirs. But you signed away your freedom. You are a slave to the gobblement
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What makes you think that you will never collect it? If we can print funny money for everything else, we can surely print it to take care of the elderly and ill.
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Do both. If you can manage it.
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This is an anonymous forum, so please check in if your mattress is stuffed with cash.
No, those that refuse to do for themselves that you think deserve someone else's money are scum.
Alienation should always be a consideration. But, when it comes to most rich people, who rely on a large and relatively difficult-to-move workforce, it's less of a consideration, than when it comes to movie productions, which have small, ad-hoc workforces (recruited for several months for each new project), and so can pretty easily be moved from country to country to take advantage of tax considerations.
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and just like Ayn Rand you will collect it after railing against it your whole life
just like her you say that shit to make your self feel smart
try feeling some compassion once in awhile
your life wont be sooo bleek
I've seen no evidence you can do even basic math. It's conceivable, I suppose, that you're just extremely lazy -- or extremely dishonest, in that you know the numbers will blow up your argument, so you choose not to present them. But I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that it isn't a moral failing, and you're merely stupid.
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The good news is that spending bills originate in the House of Representatives so I look forward to the balanced budget Nancy Pelosi delivers
A Presidents budget is irrelevant
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https://www.aarp.org/money/investing/info-2018/seniors-before-social-security.html
How Did Older Americans Get By Before Social Security?
To appreciate what Social Security provides for older Americans, it’s useful to look back at the ways seniors built a nest egg — or, more accurately, how most of them didn’t — before the program was put in place in 1935 to help the country recover from the Great Depression.
So how did older Americans get by? Website Gobankingrates.com compiled a list of 16 things that served as a safety net for seniors before Social Security, though “safety net” doesn’t really apply to many of the options, which include panhandling, moving into almshouses or poorhouses, or simply dying impoverished, which was the fate that befell 1 in every 2 older Americans in the years after the 1929 stock market crash.
Among the most “reliable” resources were pension plans, though as of 1932 only 15 percent of American companies offered employees such an option. State pensions were available for the lucky few government workers; by 1935 about 3 percent of elderly Americans were receiving those benefits. And in the years after the Civil War, those injured during military service received pensions. By the early years of the 20th century, less than 1 percent of the U.S. population was still benefiting from those.
Annuities gained popularity in the years before the Depression, as the practice of large, extended families providing a safety net for elder members diminished. And savings accounts were useful to some, too, though banks weren’t as trusted or as regulated. Thus, the old cliche of stuffing money into a mattress wasn’t an outlandish or impractical notion — often, it was the most practical option, at least for the few seniors who had cash on hand. Some seniors relied on help from church congregations and neighbors to stay afloat. A few had investments that survived the crash.
It’s safe to say that Social Security was one of the most important federal programs for America’s older workers, and recent studies provide confirmation: A 2016 report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities showed that Social Security benefits lifted more than 22 million Americans above the poverty line the previous year. The study estimated that without Social Security, more than 40 percent of seniors in American would be living at or below the poverty level.
How Did Older Americans Get By Before Social Security?
To appreciate what Social Security provides for older Americans, it’s useful to look back at the ways seniors built a nest egg — or, more accurately, how most of them didn’t — before the program was put in place in 1935 to help the country recover from the Great Depression.
So how did older Americans get by? Website Gobankingrates.com compiled a list of 16 things that served as a safety net for seniors before Social Security, though “safety net” doesn’t really apply to many of the options, which include panhandling, moving into almshouses or poorhouses, or simply dying impoverished, which was the fate that befell 1 in every 2 older Americans in the years after the 1929 stock market crash.
Among the most “reliable” resources were pension plans, though as of 1932 only 15 percent of American companies offered employees such an option. State pensions were available for the lucky few government workers; by 1935 about 3 percent of elderly Americans were receiving those benefits. And in the years after the Civil War, those injured during military service received pensions. By the early years of the 20th century, less than 1 percent of the U.S. population was still benefiting from those.
Annuities gained popularity in the years before the Depression, as the practice of large, extended families providing a safety net for elder members diminished. And savings accounts were useful to some, too, though banks weren’t as trusted or as regulated. Thus, the old cliche of stuffing money into a mattress wasn’t an outlandish or impractical notion — often, it was the most practical option, at least for the few seniors who had cash on hand. Some seniors relied on help from church congregations and neighbors to stay afloat. A few had investments that survived the crash.
It’s safe to say that Social Security was one of the most important federal programs for America’s older workers, and recent studies provide confirmation: A 2016 report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities showed that Social Security benefits lifted more than 22 million Americans above the poverty line the previous year. The study estimated that without Social Security, more than 40 percent of seniors in American would be living at or below the poverty level.
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your fucks held the entire government and didn't
so they lie to you and you suck it the fuck up anyway huh
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So you don’t want a balanced budget now that your side controls the purse strings?
Good to know.
No more complaining about deficits and debt for you
Thinks she can do math. 
Fixed. The notion that anyone who promotes leftist ideology isn't a moron requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
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Its your fuck brained assholes who claim a deficit is evil remember
That your gig asshole