She fills the massive gaping hole where a satisfying romance should have been. It would elevate the entire story without even having to change anything else.
I just did, dumbo.
Ponzi scheme — “An investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors.”
That exactly how Social Security works.
You pay 6.2% of your income in payroll tax. Your employer matches it. The federal government takes that money and spends it. They then pay current beneficiaries using funds “contributed” by currently working Americans.
It isn’t a private retirement savings plan / account contrary to popular belief by fools like you who don’t know anything about economics, taxes, or government.
Wanna try again or do you need another beatdown?
Tired of this excuse. First of all, social security is not something you “pay into.” If it were, you wouldn’t need younger people to “pay into it” in order to get your check. But you do. Because this is a Ponzi scheme, not a retirement account. What you really mean to say is that your money was stolen from you — which it was — and now you want to steal from younger people to get restitution. That’s the actual case you’re making and it’s exactly as morally deranged as it sounds.
Second, your generation continually for decades voted for politicians who would keep the scheme going. You might not have invented social security, but you damn sure made certain it kept going. Why should younger people have to pay the price for the shitty policies you supported?
Third, you “paid into” social security in a different time. The country is now bankrupted and 40 trillion dollars in debt, and basic things like housing are prohibitively expensive. It wasn’t like that when you were young, because your generation of leadership created this problem.
So the theme here is that there are a bunch of problems you guys either created or contributed to. You can choose to pay the price for that now, or force your grandchildren to pay the price so you can live comfortably until you die and leave them holding the bag. You’ve chosen the latter, and I think that’s wrong. Simple as that.