You have to love being an American. Where else can you live and be bombarded daily about how lucky you are to live in the land of the free and home of the brave? Where else can you hear about the triumphant abolishment of slavery while looking at your paycheck that has been severely reduced in the name of the public good?
It’s disturbingly amusing that you can have hundreds of thousands of dollars extorted from you over your working lifetime for someone else's retirement instead of your own. In fact, when it comes time for your much-deserved retirement, things get complicated instead of simple. For example, you get to fight through a maze of medicare supplement plans thanks to your government looking out for you. Survived that little adventure if you can until your ultimate end. Even in death, what's left of your property isn't your own unless you paid off some pricey lawyers to keep bureaucratic fingers away.
I guess I could close my eyes and try to wish it all away. And maybe that's the problem. Too many people have been and are now pursuing that destructive method. Can we break this bad habit? Or, shall we just sit back and enjoy the decline?
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