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[–] bb22 0 points 24 points (+24|-0) ago 

That’s hardly an exaggeration. Socialist universities don’t require economics courses to graduate anymore. Every idiot who votes should be able to pass a basic economics quiz.

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[–] chirogonemd 1 point 29 points (+30|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Meanwhile, $1.1 trillion dollars is spent on a total of 126 welfare programs in the US annually. Of course, that includes social security and medicaid, which people who have paid in deserve to collect. But the point is: how many people are receiving free money out of this tax pool who have not done a fucking thing all year long but "muh dick". So Bloomberg's $500 million spread evenly across the population would have netted us each about $1.20 after tax, and that would have been just wonderful, but the nearly $7,000 (on average) that is being taken from every member of the labor force yearly (for welfare) doesn't move their needle? Now imagine that someone 25 years old is making $50k at their first salaried job. Great. Imagine that instead of the aforementioned average tax going to welfare programs, this person started to invest that amount into something low risk like a CD, at 3.8% until retirement 40 years later. That's almost $700k more for their retirement.

But they don't get that opportunity, it's stolen to feed people who won't do a fucking productive thing for this person or society at large. Devote some of that money to higher risk instruments and you'd be looking at even more. When you think about the value being taken from you every year, it should wake people up. Basically, you are being forced to earn - since the growth of the welfare state - two retirements. Granted, $700,000 probably isn't enough to sustain a retirement for someone who is going to live past 80 years old with a >$50k per year lifestyle, but it's a big chunk of change. More important is what it's being taken for: to support people who hate you, and to help scum fuck politicians purchase elections, indirectly using your labor, so that they can call you a scum fuck for being the provider, and encourage the welfare recipients to hate you more. But the hungry black and mexican kids!

This is why democracy is a destructive form of government, and only becomes slightly less so when it's "representative". If most people only grasped how tragic the basis of knowledge was from which most votes are cast. We're in such a fucked position. The world is more complex than most voters are able to deal with (that is, for their vote to carry meaning that impacts the situation positively), but the powers that be also benefit greatly from making the world seem far more complex than it is. Then, when they can make stupid people feel hopeless about getting less stupid, those people will default to authorities, and acronyms after names like PhD.

As far as I'm concerned, the biggest weakness we have as a people right now is not the forced diversity, or this or that vice, it's that we've lost a useful middle. A class of independent people who think for themselves and have the common sense to do it, moreover that they feel entitled to think for themselves. People of past times just had a much stronger skepticism, they were disagreeable toward government, and they came by it naturally. It was a memory preserved from history. Nowadays, people look at you cockeyed for questioning anything coming down the main line, as if to tell you that the average person cannot think for themselves - that they mustn't.

They project their helplessness onto everyone and call you a "conspiracy theorist" for your skepticism, because your skepticism exposes something in them that is threatening, something which makes them sick: that "mom and dad" don't have it "all figured out". Your skepticism triggers the thought of the real human predicament, of responsibility, and these people can't stand it. What follows is that your free thinking must be instability, a lack of "chill", or fear.

As far as the tweet goes, I understand the humor is the math error. But the premise is also so fucking ignorant. You cannot pay people for their votes, i.e. buy an election. But if they'd only look at what welfare is, they'd realize elections are being bought, with your fucking money. This is the crux of the issue. Think about this for just a moment, if you would. These people are complaining that Bloomberg could have spent all of his own (and his investor's) money to buy the election from them, but far more money is being taken from the people every year so the DNC can buy the elections. We even pay for their failures; we even pay for them to bring in more of the people who will demand welfare; we pay for the democrats to make promises to people that we'll pay. I've worked myself into a pitchfork fucking frenzy now. Fuck.

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[–] apajeet 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

what a great comment my man. it is sickening thinking how much more wealth I'd have without having to pay for all the dead weight this country has accumulated. or to think how much less i'd have to work or how much earlier I could retire or how many kids I could afford to have without all the fucking leaches.

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[–] Manintights 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

slow claps while nodding with respect.

I wish I could up vote this comment more than once.... Brilliant...

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[–] bb22 ago 

Looks about right.

Knowledge of supply and demand, elastic and inelastic goods, and why price floors upset the free market would be a good start. That should begin the process of immunization against communist horse shit.