Why create a system which rewards irresponsible fiscal behavior? What moron doesn't plan for their financial future? I have always known better - when I made $12 an hour, I lived on beans and rice, tweaked my own car (sometimes with duct tape), rented rooms in shitty apts, and wound up with 13k in the bank WHILE paying for and finishing grad school. It's very possible, yet we act as though
A lot of people make less that $12/hour. And you can call having kids "irresponsible" all you want, in the real world, people are going to have them. It is also worth considering that you have been luckier than most. It's pretty difficult to save for retirement when you can't work for 10 months due to illness or injury, especially early in your career. I can speak from experience when I say that can put you in a hole out of which will take years to climb.
Most importantly, as far as I'm concerned, SS also supports people who are DISABLED at any age. If you're spine gets crushed or you schizophrenia kicks in before your 401k matures, it's nice to know there is at least a little something there to live on.
I'm an ant who would happily let the grasshopper starve.
OK, what about the grasshopper's wife? Remember, we're only a few decades into the era of two-income families. An awful lot of retired women depended entirely or in large part upon their husband's income and pension, not out of laziness, but because that was the way society was structured.
It would be nice if everybody was able, and had the forsight, to save money for a rainy day. But they can't and they don't. The alternative to Social Security is to let them starve in the streets, or start sticking them on iceburgs.
On another tangent, I'll raise the argument that it is impossible to be a fiscal conservative without also being a social conservative, because the economic status-quo is reliant on various extant social structures. Changes in these structures pose a threat to the economic status-quo, so, regardless of a fiscal conservative's personal feelings on social issues, he must oppose changes to the social status-quo in order to protect his economic interests.
Take a good long look at who you're siding with before adopting a "fuck 'em, I've got mine" swagger, little girl. You want to know why it's somebody else's business who or how you fuck? Because a lot of people are making money by keeping things the way they used to be.
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A lot of people make less that $12/hour. And you can call having kids "irresponsible" all you want, in the real world, people are going to have them. It is also worth considering that you have been luckier than most.
It's pretty difficult to save for retirement when you can't work for 10 months due to illness or injury, especially early in your career. I can speak from experience when I say that can put you in a hole out of which will take years to climb.
Most importantly, as far as I'm concerned, SS also supports people who are DISABLED at any age. If you're spine gets crushed or you schizophrenia kicks in before your 401k matures, it's nice to know there is at least a little something there to live on.
I'm an ant who would happily let the grasshopper starve.
OK, what about the grasshopper's wife? Remember, we're only a few decades into the era of two-income families. An awful lot of retired women depended entirely or in large part upon their husband's income and pension, not out of laziness, but because that was the way society was structured.
It would be nice if everybody was able, and had the forsight, to save money for a rainy day. But they can't and they don't. The alternative to Social Security is to let them starve in the streets, or start sticking them on iceburgs.
On another tangent, I'll raise the argument that it is impossible to be a fiscal conservative without also being a social conservative, because the economic status-quo is reliant on various extant social structures. Changes in these structures pose a threat to the economic status-quo, so, regardless of a fiscal conservative's personal feelings on social issues, he must oppose changes to the social status-quo in order to protect his economic interests.
Take a good long look at who you're siding with before adopting a "fuck 'em, I've got mine" swagger, little girl. You want to know why it's somebody else's business who or how you fuck? Because a lot of people are making money by keeping things the way they used to be.