My message to Gen X'ers and millenials
The political climate today is absolutely frightening. I go online and all I see is dumbed down young people calling for a socialist revolution, or ivory tower feminists telling me that I need to check my white male privilege like I really owe them something, or George Soros backed social justice warriors telling me that black lives matter but that random cop killings are perfectly justified.
Well, I've got news for you! You're all being used. The Democrat politicians, George Soros and the crony capitalists all want you to stay poor, dumbed down, fighting with each-other over nonsense and ready to riot. Pressure from above and pressure from below. That's how the controllers operate. As Rahm Emanuel once said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste". For more information, I suggest you go to Youtube and watch some videos on "The Cloward and Piven Strategy".
I'm a baby boomer and I'm actually disgusted by the fact that the people of my generation decided to bankrupt the country, destroy our economy and corrupt our morals. I never supported any of these disastrous policies, or the politicians who were making these decisions.
However, it was the responsibility of Gen X and the millennials to get educated, get organized and then stand up and demand real reform. Instead, you morons were too busy ** around on social media and ** sites while the baby boomers were burning down the country.
You morons grew up with the internet so you had free access to truthful political information that I had to acquire from books that I spent thousands of dollars collecting. The fact that today's young people support ** socialists, communists and globalists like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tells me that, collectively, you Gen X'ers and millennials are brain dead. If you people really think that our decaying and bankrupt socialist system can ever be fixed with even more layers socialism than you have absolutely no future.
In less than two months from now we'll be having the most important presidential election of our lifetimes. Donald Trump my well be the last presidential candidate you'll ever see who will actually stand up for poor and working class people. My advice? Get informed and vote wisely. This may be your last chance..........
I think we're in agreement on at least one thing- to balance the budget means we *must* have spending reform. But if we cut in the right places, it can be done. Our government doesn't have money problems, it has efficiency problems. All the money it needs to carry out its responsibilities is there, and more. We just need to give the workers motivation to use their allotment efficiently. Try this on for size - if a government department comes in under budget, then we take half of the money they saved, and split it evenly among all the members of that department in the form of a bonus check. They will find ways to cut back.?
This is a good suggestion but it's only a drop in the bucket! In order to actually balance the budget, and to preserve social security, then Medicare and Medicaid must be totally discontinued. Just try telling that to the army of dumbed down, sickly and self entitled baby boomers who are now retiring and have paid into those programs for all of their lives.
I don't think it's a "drop in the bucket" at all. Overall, i'd say we could gain 10% back that way, which would be more than enough to get us back in the black. Not to mention, what happens after we default on the debt? Will we suddenly have a government filled with responsible spenders? Of course not. The only way to teach the American public what happens when they spend more money than they make is to force them to go through the pain of paying it back. Of course Trump would suggest default on our financial obligations. Filing bankruptcy was his go-to solution any time his own ventures went into the toilet.
Like I said, you've made a good suggestion that should be implemented. However, it just doesn't go far enough. The big problem is with entitlements. Medicare and Medicade are complex open ended programs that are impossible oversee so the cost overruns can never be contained. These programs are a magnet for deliberate overcharging and outright fraud. The sheer volume of individual claims against these programs makes it impossible for the government to audit the majority of these claims. That's why I say that in order to save social security, and to prevent the government from going bankrupt, government must completely get out of the health care business. If something isn't done than Medicare, Medicade and the bloated government worker pension system will destroy this country, BTW, our founding fathers wrote the bankruptcy laws to protect our citizens from debt slavery and to keep our economy strong. Our founding fathers knew that bad debt needed to be flushed out of the system and they knew something about the evils of predatory lending practices that you haven't figured out yet. If Trump used the bankruptcy laws properly than good for him!
I agree that the bankruptcy laws in this country do a good job of reigning in predatory lending and reducing debt slavery. But they are also misused by large corporations and rich entities to escape responsibility for their blunders. When a CEO can file bankruptcy for a company and walk away with a 45 million dollar severance package as the shareholders walk away with nothing, that is not a correct use of the bankruptcy laws.