"Your generation is going to pay for nothing."

Bahaha! What? We will have to pay for Baby Boomers' entitlements and then get none for ourselves since politicians refuse to reform the system. And that's assuming there isn't a debt crisis in the meantime.

Oh yeah, we'll pay. You and I, Putin. You should move to Russia before it's too late.

And by the way, no, I'm not a Libertarian. I am a libertarian thinker, but I would never associate myself with the Libertarian Party. It's basically the same as communism without the training stage. It's too unrealistic. That's not to say that the party doesn't offer some good advice and have some good ideas, but the actual concept as a whole will never happen.

That's another con lie. Social Security pays for itself. I know the economically illiterate will continue to spout nonsense about it. But that doesn't change the fact. Medicare costs are rising due to increased healthcare costs (although Obamacare is going to save Medicare a shit ton of money, which the Republicans demagogued as "cuts"), which you con artists don't want to do anything about except privatize it. So yes, if we let Republicans and their insurance company overlords privatize Medicare, young people won't have shit. So why any young person votes for these mouth breathers is beyond me.

"I am a libertarian thinker, but I would never associate myself with the Libertarian Party"

I'm not talking about the party. I didn't even realize there was a party. I thought that went extinct after Harry Browne died. Libertarians are too self-absorbed and dogmatic to ever form a coherent political party.

I'll ignore the shortsighted insults for now and just say Ron Paul would disagree. He's pretty competent compared to the other guys in pretty much anything that's not a social issue. Senators Bernie Sanders and Angus King both label themselves as independents but often align with Ron Paul on foreign policy but differ on social issues - that's where I am.

Social Security pays for itself through withholding, and with Baby Boomers going on it there will be fewer workers to retired people than ever before. The only way to keep the checks rolling is to raise those taxes and have working people take home less pay. Medicare is even worse, since the costs of health care are huge and going to just get worse under that staggeringly bad piece of legislation, the ACA.


We're gonna pay through the nose unless entitlements are reformed. You don't have to go crazy, but the way they are currently structured cannot endure.

Headhunters are just commission hucksters. They're unnecessary middle men that do more harm than good. They are few jobs more worthless than HR "recruiters".

"I'm not talking about the party. I didn't even realize there was a party. I thought that went extinct after Harry Browne died."

An outright lie. You knew about Gary Johnson's run for president in 2012 on the Libertarian ticket. You posted about it. This is just a sly way of making yourself look smart by knowing who Harry Browne is.

"Headhunters are just commission hucksters. They're unnecessary middle men that do more harm than good. They are few jobs more worthless than HR "recruiters"."

So headhunters, by implication everyone who works in a restaurant, fiction writers, and musicians are professions that don't get the Putin33 seal of approval. Any others we can purge?

Everyone who eats at a restaurant too.

"Social Security pays for itself through withholding, and with Baby Boomers going on it there will be fewer workers to retired people than ever before. The only way to keep the checks rolling is to raise those taxes and have working people take home less pay."

This is a lie. Social Security is fully solvent with no changes until 2033. With minor adjustments it is fully solvent over the long term.

"Medicare is even worse, since the costs of health care are huge and going to just get worse under that staggeringly bad piece of legislation, the ACA."

Another lie.

ACA saves Medicare hundreds of millions of dollars, which the Republicans lied about and called "cuts".

You're right. Anyone who eats at a restaurant is obviously a kulak.

This should rile up a few heartless Lib-tards...

Between 1973 and 1988 there were reported over 22 million abortions. (1988 means an aborted child would be 25 years old -- thus this range give presumed TAX PAYERS and consumers)

Let's assume an average of $13,000 in taxes per person...

The US has lost an annual $286 BILLION in tax revenue by killing it's children.

It might help our budget and social security issues if we stop killing our offspring...

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-unitedstates.html

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/taxes_per_person/

I forgot about Gary Johnson. Plus he ran as a Republican first.

Minor adjustments, exactly. Adjustments Democrats refuse to make. God forbid we change how payments are tied to inflation or raise the retirement age to compensate for people living longer. Sheer victorian cruelty!

As for your Medicare nonsense, rank spin.

Putin - tell us that confession again you made where you said you were an educator, and yet you hate children and think all students are worthless and stupid and they are the problem with education. Tell us again you you give passing grades even when they aren't earned.

I really don't think you have the moral or intellectual integrity to comment on anything, shit sucker.

We could just cut the military budget in half and funnel some of it into welfare.

I know, I know, too simple. Politics and economics don't work that way.

LOL, breeders think having more kids saves us money. ROFLMAO.

"God forbid we change how payments are tied to inflation or raise the retirement age to compensate for people living longer."

Yes, we need more 70 year olds standing on their feet all day. We need people to die within a couple of years of retirement. That's the Republican way of saving money.

Breeders? What a monstrously disrespectful thing to call parents.

I guess it's good that you won't be reproducing, though. The world doesn't need Putin34.

Social Security was designed when people didn't live as long. It needs to adapt. This is going to happen, it's just a matter of whether it's forced on us by economic reality or we enact the reforms on our own terms.

Another prediction from Invictadamus. Because you've been proven correct oh so many times.

"What a monstrously disrespectful thing to call parents."

Parents? That's a far too generous word to describe the sperm donors and egg incubators that are having children.

I've heard more or less that exact sentence on some more incendiary talk show radio programs before

You're pushing an open door if you're saying to me that too many people have children when they have no business having children. I just saw a drug-addict I went to high school with just had twin girls, with no father to be seen and no job to be had. No family either, since she was in rehab out in the Pacific Northwest. Still, "breeder" is not a term I think people ought to use.

As for me allegedly always making wrong predictions, maybe that's true. I'm a fallible human, something you never acknowledge about yourself. But the predictions I make some from being informed on topics, not from pulling made up ideas out of my ass. People are wrong a lot on the McLaughlin Group, but that doesn't mean they don't know what they're talking about.

I saw she had the twins on Facebook, in case that wasn't clear. Seeing former classmates lives sputter is basically the only reason to keep the thing now post-grad. It's too bad she had to bring two innocent children into her troubled life.

The situation she's in doesn't mean she'll automatically be a bad parent. It's pretty to think everyone could be born into a happy rounded family though.

No, it does.

All righty.

@ bo_sox

"We could just cut the military budget in half and funnel some of it into welfare."

Run the numbers. We'd still have a massive deficit even if we completely disbanded the military. What will kill us in the long run is entitlements. Social security, welfare, and healthcare need to be shut down completely and immediately. Our government is stretched to the breaking point because it is thousands of times bigger than originally designed and intended.

I'm all for reasonable and well-targeted cuts to the military budget, but don't slash the military budget without corresponding cuts to completely redundant, unconstitutional, and wasteful departments such as the Department of Indoctrination ("Education"), Health and Human Services, "Homeland Security", Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Commerce, and Agriculture et al.

Also, DoD could save a lot of money if they started playing hardball with defense contractors. The Air Force should be able to approach Lockheed Martin and say: "You need to build an airplane that can do V, W, Y, and Z, and you need to have 100 of them airworthy and ready for combat by D date. If you do that, we'll pay you X dollars. If you don't make it happen, we don't pay you anything."

The military would be much more cost-effective if they stopped bending over for the military-industrial complex. For fuck's sake, the P-51 Mustang (arguably the best fighter of its era) went from contract to test flying in 149 days.