"If America is destroyed....

it will not come from an outside power, but will be destroyed from within."
Boy howdy, ain't it the truth. You can see it even here within Tman!

hate to but have to agree.

x2

Only if the dems win this election.

Probably will happen just like Gary said. Don't think so?? As long as history has been recorded how many great nations are still going strong after thousands of years? There have been a bunch that thought they would last forever because they were sooooooo smart!!! Long gone!! History always repeats itself.

It's because just under 50% of this country are IDIOTS!

Yep, most of the 50 % that are anti American are too stupid to even know it

Agree. According to the far left, it is cool to be an anti-American if you are an American.

When nearly half the people in the country hate nearly all of the other half, and some seek personal gain from fostering this hatered, we are in big trouble. Instead of being thankful for all the freedoms we have and simply going about our own lives, many choose to focus their thoughts on how others are different and hate them for it.

There is nothing more anti-American than hating someone because he has a different view than your own.

More so, the fact that half of Americans want to live off the efforts of the other half, and let illegals pour in over the border to vote producers out of business! Used to be, when a party lost an election, they would accept it and deal with it. Not any more! Now they turn to violence and lies.

It sounds like you may be buying into some of the line one side is selling, Gary. I mean no offense.

Your other point is very accurate. When radio personalities found out how much profit could be made by constantly whining about politicals parties and how easily so many of their listeners could be turn into devote followers, many Americans joined up like sports fans who believe all their team does is right and anything done by the other team needs punished. It certainly didn't start since trump gained the office.

People are just sore losers and getting worse, with encouragement. Look at the debacle at the last Super Bowl. Even before the game began. Human nature I guess.
The side I'm buying into is what the losers have said and done in front of cameras that cannot be denied. They proudly put their hatred out there for the world to see. But some still try to sweep those actions and words under the carpet and pretend it didn't happen, while it's still happening.

Do you believe that anywhere near the majority of thecountry has radical views and hatred for anyone not like themselves? I don't think we are near that point yet. But if we buy into what politicans and some of the news tells us, things will continue to worsen.

It has gotten to the point where any but the most radical conservatives are called rinos. And the most liberal members of the dem party believe the countries focus should be soley on issue like homosexuals, trannys, and some of the most perverse issues. Most of America lies somewhere between these sides but are being ignored by the politicians and the press.

idiot in Buffalo goin around planting fake pipe bombs over the last 24 hrs.

THIS COUNTRY HAS NEVER BEEN MORE DIVIDED. Hear it all the time, and it is b.s. There always has been and always will be political strife. The 60s come to mind, and then there was that minor civil war thing.

Some fool on another site often says gun owners in this country need to rise up against the governement in arm revolution. He seems to be in favor. Anyne who believes that would result in anything but greater restrctions of our rights and likely the end of private gun ownership is foolish.

Maybe that will happen someday grhkl, but the ones that yell the loudest about such things won't be found if it does. They'll be hiding until its over.

You are probably right, trapdog. The guy I speak of says he thinks if the military is used to put down a revolt, most of the service men will join the gun owners side. He is the type that makes so many Americans think all gun owners are nutballs.

Yep, the libs are trying hard.

Sad truth

Mark me down then... I hate socialism and socialists. And anyone who tries to impose it on me deserves death.

If you like socialism, good for you. Pack your crap and move to a country that has it. Don't force it on this country.

Mike

"There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business."

specially if they're invading our country.

If you think half the country wants socialism, I would bet I could guess which news programming you follow.

I think its more than half. Most people think welfare helps people and don't want to see it end.

Yawn. Try again. I follow no news programming... I just look around and pay attention.

Mike

No, no, If you exhibit any signs of conservatism whatsoever you must be a devout follower of Fox News. At least according to grackle.

Fence riders are useless

For the most part I don't care one iota about the personal decisions another person makes...

Wanna bake your brains out smoking weed in the privacy of your own home? Have at it. But don't drive while high or expect sympathy from me if your boss fires you.

Wanna live in a socialist commune and share the life of Marxist ideals? Go for it. But don't try to legislate your ideology into law and yoke everyone else with it.

Wanna major in 18th century French poetry? Knock yourself out. But if you can't find gainful employment don't use the government to pick my pocket to subsidize your poor decision.

America is (was?) the land of the free. Do whatever you can afford. But if it doesn't work don't appeal to the government to coerce other people to make it viable for you.

Mike

I say pick a side ..........and get ready

People who speak out both sides of there mouth like a few on here are worthless .

Like a tree that bends with which ever way the wind blows..........Stand for something even if it's wrong

Socialism has failed every single time it has been tried without exception. PERIOD! It does not work, it can not work. PERIOD! It has killed millions worldwide. PERIOD! Anyone that thinks otherwise should move to a socialist country and denounce your US citizenship. Send us a postcard with a stamp that cost you a months pay when you get there and get settled. Take a bag of flour with you. It's worth it's weight in gold.

finster this already IS a socialist country. it has been since fdr got his new deal passed.

You haven't been paying attention. If you spoke to anyone who knows me, especially thaose who lean to the left they'd laugh and say you have no clue. And if you are willing to back something you believe is wrong because it the position your side takes, you need to exercise you right of free choice.

I don't hate Socialist. It would be like hating idiots. I kind of feel sorry for them.

Well said Mike in A-town.

A working sap pays fed. tax, state tax, social security tax, sales tax, property tax, gas tax, vehicle licensing tax, tax on more I can't think of. A sap ends up giving up at least 50% of his money to taxes....then there's the insurance.
A socialist bum is supported by the sap trying to do the right thing and work for a living. If Socialism does get a majority toehold, there will be no incentive for a man to keep working. That's when everything collapses. But fools can't see it, or don't want to see it.
You know how hard it is to go back to work after a 30 minute break, harder after a weekend off, even harder after a week vacation. Can you imagine trying to make a man go to work who has been sitting on his duff all his life? They would rather die. And they nearly do have the majority. It's nip and tuck....but losing ground hopefully.

Not hardly but it is getting near the edge of not turning back.

Not Socialist??? Try not paying taxes and see what happens.

People need to understand a few things.

Government can give you nothing they do not first take.

Government can not do anything for you.

Government can only Get in your way or get out of your way.

the balancing act of government is to get in the way just enough to prevent corruption , crime and mis-use of the land and resources of the people.

So when the government prints money and gives it to you, who did they take that from?

it de-values every other dollar out there so everyone who holds a dollar.

If you owe money (dollars) is that not to your advantage?

Well said as usual GCPete.

not when you add up both the columns over an extended period of time.


it robs your savings of value.

People don't have savings they have debt. That is the American Dream.

I think that's part of it. Another part of the implosion will be too much immigration resulting in free stuff and socialism. Socialism has never worked in any country. It will only work to destroy this country.

If America is destroyed ... there is nowhere else left to go. The end of freedom and liberty.

Why would other Americans want to destroy the place they live?

why would 98% of Austrians elect Adolf Hitler as their president ?

Only if your plan is to be perpetually in debt.

FDR didn't start us on the path to socialism, Wilson did in 1913.

Because they hated Austria. I've been there and it is real nice. Well, other than the Rotax factory that Hitler gave them.

Near as I can figger, it's only because they despise folks who work and make themselves wealthy. And the word "wealthy" means different things to different people.
I consider myself wealthy, but I don't have a gob of money.

because they were having an unemployment crisis and they heard how everyone in Germany had a job and how wonderful it was.
yup they all got jobs but they were still starving.
they were still broke.
and they got the benefits of being turned in for anything they did or didn't do.
they got to go off an die for another nations war.
it didn't take them long to realize they had jumped from the frying pan in to the fire.

yup everyone in Germany had a job and they were starving also

you might have been a mother of 5 watching your kids and keeping your home but all kids had to go to school/re-education and indoctrination camp , Germans were brought in to oversee the daycares and kids were indoctrinated from the second they could listen mothers were sent to work.

remember Austria was a Catholic nation , the nazi's put hundreds of thousands of Catholics to death.

98% of the vote with a little bit over 99.6% voting

That's what your kind said about the New Deal programs, Social Security and so forth.

Jim

Your kind? That's not very "civil" statement James.

Sounds like you're no better than those you constantly berate for their responses to your ridiculousness.

Social Security: This is where a tyrannical government forces you to engage in a Ponzi scheme where you really never get your money back because of inflation.

X2

This is true. And the New Deal prolonged the depression.

The New Deal saved a lot of people and gave them hope.

Social Security still is the only thing that keeps millions of seniors out of poverty.

Jim

The right in this country have really radicalized. To be against a 75-year-old program that several generations of Republicans have accepted and supported!

Jim

To be for or agaisnt is irrelevant. Math will kill it either way.

Don't understand how bailing on something broken and non-repairable is being radical.

The end justify the means

SS isn't broken. It supports million of American seniors.

Odds are someone you're related to relies on SS.

Jim

The government forces me to pay taxes to support a bloated military that's larger than we need. I don't have a choice not to support it.

What's the difference?

Jim

Actually we are a big family and each working member pays monthly to support the eldest that would be using SS. Years of being told of SS's failing had the rest investing in retirement plans and or pensions believing SS would have been long gone by now.

Some people have predicted the demise of SS since its inception.

Jim

Retirements are an individual need. Military is a national need.

I can provide my own retirement.

Individual x millions is a national need.

Jim

No it is not.

James, I agree with you when it comes to the military and the welfare state supporting the military industrial complex.

The rest not so much.

They are all systems of the same problem.

Need?




Versus 150 +\- years without it.

That puts you on the far right of the political spectrum, imho.

Good luck getting your agenda through Congress. If word gets out that the GOP are planning to cut SS, they can say goodbye to the House and Senate.

So I suspect they'll keep their plans secret until after the election.

Jim

Where did this come from? I'm not the GOP.

Nope, not far right, Libertarian.

The GOP won't touch SS and Medicare.

I'm far right. I even build my own roads.

symtoms

I have several relatives that are seniors on social security.

it should have stayed for seniors who paid into the system only.

congress should have never been able to steal from it.

it does help a lot of seniors , the issue is that congress stole from it with very little difference from organized crime stealing form Union pension funds they should be in the same prison.

A state run pension fund that is for people who paid in to have a retirement and leave the work force at 62 or 65 isn't the issue it is all the other things they awarded the "benefit" to that shouldn't have come from that fund.

X2

For all that hate SS why not talk with your tax practitioner, there are ways to get paid wages and not pay into SS. Just remember you won't get any either, but for those that don't like it there are options. I did prepare taxes for two persons who opted out of SS. Both have had significant financial setbacks so the money they saved not paying SS was not utilized wisely.

Bryce

Where did I read hate? A fact is not hate.

Social Security: This is where a tyrannical government forces you to engage in a Ponzi scheme where you really never get your money back because of inflation.
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I took your comments to be that you were against SS and would like to not participate in a forced savings plan and I just related that is entirely possible for you to
do.

Bryce_____________________

Imagine if it were an opt in program, rather than an opt out program.

Sorry, I didn't mean to insult you.

Jim

It's not an opt out program. Very limited. Google it. I wish it was a "cash out" program for me. You fend for yourself.

"The law is very specific about the requirements for exemption from the Social Security program, and most taxpayers do not qualify. But yes, exemptions do exist for a small number. Certain religious groups, students, U.S. citizens who decide to forfeit their national citizenship, employees of foreign governments and self-employed workers who make less than $400 annually are all examples of taxpayers who are not responsible for paying Social Security taxes. Of course, since they are exempt, they are also ineligible to receive any Social Security benefits."

Seriously, who would opt in?

SS is being killed faster by giving it to those who have never paid a dime, especially non-citizens. But hey, they can vote!

Yes Les, I meant to say symptoms.



Why do you think it was set up?

I agree we do not need to spend as much on the Millitary. The reason we do is because the snowflakes believe only the bad guys die in war so no expense should be spared in guaranteeing so.

There was probably folks who thought a strong military was unnecessary just before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

Probably, but the fact is we could spend half as much on the military as we do and still have the strongest military in the world. Military spending has been little more than a method of wealth transfer for many decades now.

For all those who hate socialism, I have to wonder if you really hate the USA. Our country has had elements of socialism since it's creation. Public education being an example. Can you show us any successful country in the world that isn't partially socialist in nature?

Economic philosophies such as communism, socialism and capitalism are value neutral. It is the men who implement them who add the moral component.

B.S. communism and socialism have the immorality of force built into them. The three are far from value neutral, before humans ever interact inside their framework.

Turns out we only needed a couple bombs, an airplane and a dozen men or so. lol

Also it is worth noting that if that's all we had Pearl Harbor wouldn't have been the loss it was.

High tech military/weapons/surveillance ability cost lots of $ but saves American servicemen's lives.

Jim manipulated you guys off the topic of the Ponzi scheme.

I agree. It maybe a Ponzi Scheme, but there many individuals out there who can't save for any kind of retirement income. So, Ponzi Scheme or not, it saves them from poverty to a point.

Because they are being influenced by the left wing media who have their own agenda on what America should be.

So the media wants to destroy the place they live?

Every day we hear how the vast majority of Americans are saving outside of Social Security for their own individual retirement, yet people can't do it by themselves?

Of course we love wealth transfer. Social Security: Transfer of wealth from the poorest Americans to the richest Americans. Demographics.

Right, but the media doesn't see their agenda as destructive at all.

Interview some people living in poverty or welfare. Many of them weren't savers and spent money faster than they could make it. Some lost it from bad investments. SS may not be the answer, but it's something. I am familiar with some whose only income is SS. I'm not pro-government, but in this case for some, it's a good thing. However, there's no doubt that when in comes to the government and SS funds, the government is guilty of misappropriation big time.

I see what you are saying, these people are where they are, because they were irresponsible. Why should the rest of us be forced to lose wealth to enable their poor behavior?

Mother Nature's way seems to work well.

i saw a black squirrel chasing a grey in the woods this evening and did nothing.felt good.

I saw just the opposite in Warren county last week. A grey chase a black up and and around a big chestnut oak, then off throuh the woods. I thught to myself, "Jesse Jackson would have something to say that."

Grey fox or grey squirrel? Would that be a gray squirrel?

They are both symptoms of the same ponzi scheme!

From the way it appears.........either we continue.......accelerate even...the Socialism agenda or a bunch of folks are going to starve to death. Please don't feed the bears! They will become dependent on being fed. (Are there homeless people in Yellowstone Park?)

Because the government knows what's best for you. Or, at least they think they do. If they didn't force people to contribute to SS, they know many people would opt out. This would reduce the money available to those in need. I agree with you on the irresponsible, but not on those who are legitimately poor. Here's what I perceive as the biggest problem with SS:

The biggest problem with SS is misappropriation of funds by the government. Originally, SS was designed to do two things. Pay benefits to a worker if they were disabled. Or, provide retirement income to a worker who lives to retirement.

If they had followed the original intent, SS would be a much better program than it is now. But, thanks to the government, they kept finding ways to add addendums that found other ways to spend SS income. If lawmakers were good stewards of our money, they could have found safe ways to invest our SS money instead of looking for more ways to spend it.

I agree. I'm more competent than the government. Actually, most people are.

Income money burns a hole in their pocket. They can't resist spending it. So many of them seem to have their little pet programs that they've either been lobbied for or it's something personal.

An example: In MN when the lottery started the income from it was to go for the environment. About 3 years later I asked a legislator who was on a board with me, how much money has gone to the environment so far from the lottery sales? His answer was, "I'm ashamed to admit it, but none. So many legislators saw all this money coming in. They couldn't keep their hands off it and it was spent for all their little pet projects."

I believe the same thing has happened with SS over the years.