Reply #21: How about this idea. . . . . .

[Tansy_Gold]

(This contains both sarcasm and seriousness. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out which is which.)

How about we stop giving corporations the easy ability to ship jobs into other countries just to take advantage of lower wages, and we bring those jobs back to the U.S. so more workers are working and paying taxes and that makes all the expenditures a smaller percentage of the GDP? I mean, wouldn't that fix some of the problem?


Or maybe, since investing in the stock market is such a wonderful idea, we should just let the Social Security Administration invest FOR us in those "guaranteed" blue-chip companies that will continue to grow and provide us with a substantial income. I mean, wouldn't that be the easy way to go, and to give the money to our friends on Wall Street without having to go through all this privatization stuff anyway? I mean, gee, Congress, couldn't we just do that? And since we all have faith in the stock market and capitalism and corporate growth and all that good stuff, what's to worry about?

Oh, wait, you mean maybe there isn't a guarantee in the stock market, and it's because there isn't a guarantee that we want to take the money OUT of social security and GIVE it to our rich friends on Wall Street? Oh, is that how it works? Well, gee, isn't that kind of like saying social security isn't supposed to be, uh, secure?

And is it maybe that the administration DOESN'T WANT to have a viable middle class, where people can look forward to retiring and enjoying a comfortable life after their expected working years? Is it that maybe there are a few greedy rich assholes who want it ALL, who don't want to have to deal with retired PEASANTS???????

I swear, this country is really going down the terlet.