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237 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 17 Mar \ on: US Voters Want More Funding for Social Security and Medicare, Less for SBR charts_and_numbers
It's a good illustration of why the fiscal situation is hopeless. Unless there are serious cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, the US budget will continue exploding. Those three programs carry an unfunded liability of hundreds of trillions of dollars. Stated simply, at some point, those promises are going to be broken.
And yet, the popular political move is to keep making the problem worse, because that's what voters want now.
I'm trying to figure out what US voter really want? To me this all sums up like another political set up of creating mass confusion to delay what can empower the common man.
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It's really simple: voters want free shit and they give zero thought to the consequences.
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Yupp. You're absolutely right. There's a big old lie by the name of MNREGA has been set up by the previous governments here. That basically provided a guarantee of 200 day wages to every unemployed person in India. I see many villagers still sing songs for this stupid free shit because they really don't have to work and what they get - 279 Rupees (around $3) per day! The current Modi government wants to stop it but it fears losing the next election. This free shit is cancerous in democracy.
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It's why a lot of people think that only net tax payers should be able to vote.
Of course, the problem with that is needing people to support it now, when it's wildly unpopular.
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Never gonna happen in democracy. The premises of democracy is equal rights and representation, which comes in contrast to your opinion.
I think it would be better if governments leave all finances to the private sector and only keep for them what's necessary to run or government a nation.
I mean they should leave Medicare, education, Social security in the hands of corporate or private companies and have Police and administration under them.
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I don't think there's any way to maintain that.
Either A) decisions are made democratically and they devolve into a slim majority living off of a minority, or B) not all decisions are made democratically.