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Samuel Alito says he is considering retirement & could hand Trump another nomination
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Its the 1% vs the working class, not generation vs generation.
You missed the point by thi________________________s much.
The ONLY reason billionaires have the power they have is because of conservatives (including neo-liberals). Conservatives have always protected the wealthy. They worship the rich.
If not for conservatives, the normal people would be able to charge billionaires with crimes. If not for conservatives, billionaires would be required to pay fair taxes. As long as conservatives continue to breathe our air, billionaires will remain untouchable.
We cannot defeat the boss until his foot-soldiers are dead.
Boomers are not working class since most of them are actually taking money from the working class right now, and are incentivized to keep electing these god awful politicians. They were working class now they live off investments, and social security, both held up by the actual working people.
Do disabled welfare recipients next. They aren't working class by that logic.
Unlike boomers, welfare recipients do not own 51-52% of the country.
The first step to the disability claim is the government checking to make sure you’ve been working for the last 10 years….
How would I have a claim to disability if I hadn’t paid for the insurance through taxes on my labor moron??
Maybe the person was born disabled. But I am the moron for thinking of that apparently.
First, I don't agree with the comment you replied to. I don't think they "aren't working class" But I think they have a point; that they defined badly.
There is a difference between a generation that has been the majority voting block for decades is targeted and offered concessions by the ruling class to maintain their loyalty; and people with disabilities that we acknowledge as a society we want to take care of.
I do agree that when "generations" are the target of conflict in order to avoid mentioning class that that is unhelpful. But, it's not "generational reductionisms" to understand why a generation of the working class (a specific race and gender as well) has been offered concessions from the ruling class.
It's a massive reason for why the "trans panic" or "immigrant panic" worked with boomers. They were taken care of. They don't understand why their children are having such a hard time. It can't be the system that gave them everything. It can't be that they were "given everything" they worked hard.
It must be the socialist and woke shit that is the problem.
It's ok to understand class conflict and intersectionality in the context of how a generation forms it's ideas that direct their political support.
When we are talking about "boomers" we are talking about this major disconnection in material conditions they grew up with when compared to the results of neolib and neocon policies long after they "made it". Well, at least I am. And I think the term "boomer" is better vocabulary for explaining that "without explaining that".
I don't think they were talking about "senior care" in the way we'd discuss"care for those with disabilities". I think they just have a horrible understanding of "class" and how much a specific generation of working class people have been conditioned into a way of thinking due to the concessions they have been given.
Correct there are plenty of boomers with $0 to their name and living off social security, barely scraping by. There are homeless boomers. But half the generation is living off some rent seeking behavior they started in 1980 and happy to hold it up. Technically if you’re pulling a Social Security check, you are working class. But if a Social Security check amount for 10% of your annual income, you are probably in the capitalist class. If 90% of your income comes from rent and financial assets….. You’re no longer working class you’re betting on your financial assets.
Question if you asked a multi-millionaire boomer to give up there social security to someone who needs it. Say the family makes $400k a year which includes $40,000 in social security. Do you think they would willingly give that up? Do you think thats an easy political goal?
"hey social security is intended for people who depend on it financially and not a buffer to your large portfolio"
We could solve social security by capping the OUTFLOWs at $250k. Go poll some boomers on that lmao let me know if you still think they are working class.
Anyway, the cost of means testing would probably exceed any benefit to be gained by doing it.
Would it tho? I started selling drugs around the patriot act so I am very certain at this government’s ability to track every last fucking penny around the globe. Just because they do it selectively doesn’t mean they can’t do it. 🤣
Always got money for an Iran war, drug war, war on the poor, how on earth can we keep track of all these people’s income taxes?
Idk man that a core feature of the government so can’t be expecting that to happen.
“Freedom is when tax evasion” -Ron Paul
The 1% owns a bit over 30% of the country's wealth, people over 55 own over 70%. Billionaires are but a symptom of a much larger problem.