It's all about control. The less money you have, the more dependent on government you will be. The Patriot Act was the beginning of the end.

I don't need insurance. I have a DNR!

Indeed! The politicians of BOTH parties could have ended this charade! Want to end it? Make the con-gress critters use the same health and retirement plans of the rest of us and it will change in a heartbeat. Never happen!

For a long time, it's been difficult to distinguish the Demoblicans from the Republicrats, although both groups seem to have a disdain for MAGA Republicans, who in some areas seem to think more like Libertarians.

No, just ask for any evidence that someone born 80 or more years after slavery ended was responsible for it.
Paying such reparations would mean that the people alive now would be due reparations in return because
they were in no way responsible and were harmed by said irrational reparations.
Or just D.C. NIFO since everything being done to steal from honest people (of all races) has been arranged
and/or condoned by the federal government and all those who have been involved in imposing
current slavery to the fedgov and their conspirators, e.g., banking cartel, MIC, pharma cartel,
media cartel, and big tech.

Here's a copy/paste of my response to your other post. SS Ponzi never should have been started in the first place, but since we were forced into it...

"I can agree with you sort of and only part way. It's a mix of a Ponzi scheme and a welfare program. The problem is people like my wife and I (and our respective employers on our behalf) were forced to pay into the scheme (taxed) all of our working lives and we are expecting a ROI (Return On Investment) as if it were an actual investment or savings account. The Ponzi part comes into play when it requires new "investors" to pay into the system to pay off old "investors" who are now collecting because the so-called investment or savings fund has been raided or misspent by politicians since LBJ in the '60s. The welfare (wealth redistribution) part comes into play when people who paid in virtually nothing are receiving full benefits out. The most recent class of these recipients are retired government employees, who are collecting government retirement checks, are now also collecting SS due to a stroke of Biden's pen - a married couple close to me and my wife are now BOTH recipients who never paid in. Politician pen strokes have been raiding the fund for decades. Those of us who were forced to pay in all of our working lives are receiving only a fraction of what we could be getting if the same money were invested in any number of private funds over the decades."