Tyrannical on 13 May 2009
| That Guy said: I really do wish that instead of a giant Social Security system, the government just forces you to have an IRA and that money that would have gone in to SS would just go into that IRA. And within that IRA, you can invest whatever you want. |
Liberalism is based on making you appreciative when the government gives you your money back. How could they possible buy votes under your plan?
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
