(02-15-2023, 07:04 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Aha, I knew there was more to that unholy Economist slack piece.
"Sacred Trust" is a cover version of a song originally written and produced by the Bee Gees from the 2001 album This Is Where I Came In. Wiki
That is a helluva coined term to use that has many meanings.
Quote:For 87 years, the Federal Government has kept the promise to all Americans: if they contribute to Social Security with each and every paycheck, they would be able to retire with dignity. President Biden has called this promise a "sacred trust."
It is Congress' responsibility to keep that promise and to safeguard Social Security for all Americans. Congress must also ensure the benefits keep up with Americans' expenses – today, tomorrow, and forever.
That's why, as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee, Rep. Larson authored the Social Security 2100: A Sacred Trust
Quote:Marshall McLuhan once said, "Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to lose."
Remembering the 'sacred trust' -- do the right thing
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Social Security is the one thing i'm still willing to go to war with the government over. I paid into it for decades - that money is MINE. The deal they made was that if I gave them my money to hold, they'd invest and cause it to expand so that I didn't have to sell flowers or pick up aluminum cans at the roadside to survive after retirement. That money is MINE, not theirs. The deal they made was to hold it and increase it, not dip their sticky goddamned fingers into it.
If they welsh on that deal, all bets are off.
ALL bets.
They shouldn't screw with pensioners. We're getting towards the end of our days anyhow, and making survival impossible is NOT an incentive for us not to act - and "life in prison" is not the same deterrent for us as it once was. We have less life left anyhow, so not as much to lose. We know we're gonna die anyhow, so a quick bullet from a government agent as a retaliation for defending what is OURS is preferable to a long, drawn out, painful death by starvation due to malfeasance by that same government.
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