(08-31-2017, 03:48 PM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(08-31-2017, 10:57 AM)Caldrac Wrote: That's the thing. Give it time. We've been through these very same slumps in 2008 and the Great Depression. And it can happen again to the point to where we'll never truly recover from it. It may not be as bad as the rest of the world has it. But you can make the argument that in due time it can surely happen. I am not jealous nor paranoid of it either. I live a comfortable life. I am thankful for it. But I am still concerned for my future if it's there when I reach my 50's and look towards 60 to retire after busting my [BLEEP] and my balls to feed into this greedy [BLEEP] system.

I don't think we need to tear the whole system down. But to say that it's better than it was way back when doesn't mean it's the greatest thing since sliced bread either or that it can't be improved greatly. I mean, if you're cool getting jacked 1/4 every year in the taxes you pay in compared to the little bone they throw you back every income tax season that's fine.

But to me it's ridiculous. We're working 1/4 a year for free. For nothing. When you factor in how much the average american pays into their taxes it's sickening that we're losing three months of work to "society" where god only knows what the Government is doing with it. 

Meanwhile these [BLEEP] suckers leach from the top, send [BLEEP] off shores to not be penalized and then go about telling US how to live our [BLEEP] lives. They're the ones tilting and rigging the table. It'll go so far before the greed dries up the well and we start losing more than you realize overall. You'll start losing your retirement money worse than what people saw in 2008. And most importantly. Your freedom. They'll put some laws in place I am sure to try and [BLEEP] us some more.

Anybody why says, "God only knows what the government is doing with it..."  is just being willfully ignorant.  

Read this and you'll know what they do with it. 

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budge.../spending/

"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."