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[–]RickC-137[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

I've paid all my life into those systems and somebody comes along and gets it for free?

Sure if they are going to make Mexico another State with constitutional rights, but they don't get shit for free when I didn't and don't, sorry.

Their plan is to dismantle the US, not expand it. Expansion is a bad thing also, look at Rome. It's a bad idea. We have it good here and we should keep it that way.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

" I've paid all my life into those systems and somebody comes along and gets it for free? "

That applies FAR MORE to the ruling class, from the top down to your boss. You work and earn yet have no say and only get a little slave-wage payment - yet "they" and (((they))) get to decide what to do with all the profits.

Why would Mexico get rights when NONE of the US territories NOW do not have any? D.C. to Puerto Rico and the MANY others, overtly as territories like the US Virgin Islands, nebulously like the Philippines, or nefariously like Iraq, Afghanistan, etc etc etc.

They are taxed yet NOT represented. The whole thing is unfair. And you're trained to worry about the unfairness of your fellow man claimed to be a freeloader. Sure they exist, but they may be mostly "useless eaters" but are NOT the major scam here or anywhere. You are trained to punch down. The billionaires tell the millionaires on TV to tell the thousandaires that the poor people are the problem.

Be better. Stay focused on punching at the groin of the ruling class and their rigged systems.

The poor aren't going to "dismantle the US", expand, nor invade other nations. Only the ruling class will do that - and are. And they are determined to make it not good here.

[–]RickC-137[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

I'm not really concerned about fairness. It's unfair to me to let people into a system who have never paid. Who cares about being fair to people that paid, no one? They should start from scratch like I did.

Anyway, I don't understand this whole line of thinking. It's not logical nor straight forward. It's Utopian thinking.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

" I'm not really concerned about fairness. " Really?

Then why say, " I've paid all my life into those systems and somebody comes along and gets it for free? " Why bitch about it and say, " people into a system who have never paid " if it's not about "fairness". You're being hypocritical, perhaps not consciously if you have a blind spot for this.

All of the police, military, government etc. gets your money for free - and I can prove they do much worse things with it than all the couch potatoes.

I totally agree with you that everyone should earn their way.

However, I'm also certain that the poor and whatever they might get are virtually insignificant in the grand scheme of things. That's the ultimate simple truth.

The poor are a distraction. Canada takes care of our poor and does NOT suffer for it, no matter what the rich might say. We have more peace and manners and ethics because we have less desperation.

Now, in these crisis times, the entire deck is being reshuffled by the ruling class, meanwhile while the powerless and trivial poor, the middle who is getting utterly gutted, and even the upper class with many in peril, have no say in the matters.

The ruling class is the ONLY true and total enemy.

[–]RickC-137[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Why bitch about it and say, " people into a system who have never paid " if it's not about "fairness". You're being hypocritical, perhaps not consciously if you have a blind spot for this.

Why are you concerned about fairness to them, but not to me?

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I do care about you AND everyone.

Anyone with less than $10,000,000 is NOT in the ruling class, IMO. Call them the underclass if you will - all of them from $10m to dirt poor $0.00. I'm concerned about all of them. And if the ruling class can be reigned in then EVERYONE on the bottom end will do MUCH MUCH better, including you.

And when you are doing better you won't care so much about taking care of the less fortunate as you do.

You might even begin to recognize how utterly rigged the system is and see we need to only punch up, at the top.

Knowing all the little details is fine, but until the imbalanced rigged system is properly reset, no amount of bandages will stop the suffering on all levels.

[–]RickC-137[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

bad bot

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You could argue it makes me a progressive, but how does that make me a bot, much less a bot that's bad?