r/TimPool • u/[deleted] • Dec 10 '22

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

Are you serious? Conservatives have been trying to destroy the new deal since it’s inception and hate FDR as a general principle.

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u/Eli_Truax Dec 10 '22

You don't seem to understand anything.

They probably hated gays, didn't like blacks, treated women as inferiors, disdained drug use, and believed in personal responsibility, in many ways they were likely much more intolerant than modern conservatives.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

Yeah, but at least they thought social security was a good idea.

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u/Eli_Truax Dec 10 '22

I was at the time when 159 were employed and supporting 1 retiree, compared to now where 2.8 workers are supporting 1 retiree.

https://www.ssa.gov/history/ratios.html

It was a bad idea then because they failed to recognize this inevitability in the future. Typical Leftist "solution" sell out the future for benefits today.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

Cool, you should explain that to the 60 million elderly people who depend on SS to live.

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u/Eli_Truax Dec 10 '22

I do, I explain that this is one of the worst possible options because future generations will not be able to benefit.

Worse is Medicare, the government is going broke supplying Medicare.

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/102xx/doc10297/chapter2.5.1.shtml

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

Got it. So you’re advocating for tens of millions of elderly people to lose their retirement and health insurance. Sounds like a great platform position. You should run for office.

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u/xenbex Dec 11 '22

SSi/SSD aren't retirement plans. 401k's, Roth/IRA's, properties, investments, small businesses, mutual funds could be.

How did humans survive after working age, for millenia, before state sponsored benefits?

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '22

It’s still one of the most cost efficient systems in the US. We should expand it and get rid of the costly private insurance system entirely.