Social Security came into being in 1935, and thus every American alive today paid into the fund from the moment they entered the workplace until the moment they left. Yet, as we’re seeing, the GOP believes that a tenable platform is simply this: let’s rip these people off. Again, this isn’t some marginalized fringe group; it’s the entirety of the U.S. electorate. If you’re a political strategist, does this seem like a good idea?
A progressive since a small boy, I’ve never liked Republicans. I still remember distinctly my take as a nine-year-old on Barry Goldwater in ’64, and George Wallace, who got my grandfather’s vote four years later. I was not impressed, putting it kindly.
Yet at that point, I understood that some folks, many of them older, might be drawn to more conservative values. But what’s appealing about whacking the retirement plan that literally every American worker paid into?
I see.
There’s not enough land in Spain to support rooftop and ground-mounted solar at a fraction of the cost.
LOL.
It’s possible that right now, there are other civilizations observing the human race, studying us from afar, and noticing our decline into savagery and eventual extinction by turning billionaires into trillionaires.
People say that the principal weakness of human beings is that we can’t plan for the future as a species. Dogs are arguably even worse, though they aren’t consumed with greed. They don’t plot the starvation of millions of other dogs so they themselves can have enough food to last a billion years.
As an elderly man, I’ll be leaving this planet soon, but I won’t cease pondering this until my heart stops beating.
The drawing here reminds me of a conversation I had with my mother in the early days of 2GreenEnergy when she saw that my focus had become an ongoing effort to improve the wellbeing of all the planet’s inhabitants–now and into the future.
She asked me, “Why don’t you just live your life?”
I explained, “This is my life.”
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