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Still, retirement experts agree that women won’t be able to improve their fate in old age entirely on their own. They’ll need changes in Social Security, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and labor laws.
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What a bunch of liberal Barbara Streisand!
It’s well known that the “social security insurance” ponzi scheme favors rich white women over poor minority men.
Anecdotal evidence aside. The gubamint ponzi scheme is bad for everyone. It also doesn’t factor in the gubamint’s inflation, which is also concealed by their phony stats. (Do you think that energy is excluded from the COLA calculations so that they don’t have to give all the ssi seniors more? And, you probably believe them when they say they stopped publishing M3 to save your money! Not that it would show just how much fiat money the fed was creating!)
If Chile could shift from a socialist social security ponzi scheme, why can’t we? It was led by a fellow educated in USA!
Perhaps, the gubamint skools don’t do a very good job larning these individuals to take care of themselves.
Perhaps we should help all of the Ponzi scheme victims by shutting down social security insurance.
Perhaps we can just put all levels of gubamint out of messing in employment. Kill the minimum wage. End the rules. Wage and hour. And, anything else. It’s a free market. If you don’t like how an employer treats you, leave. Or, better yet, start a competing business.
Perhaps we can finally unwind the nonsense that was created by the wage and price controls of ww2 by eliminating company paid pension and medical insurance plans. During the wage and price controls of ww2, companies created these programs to attract the talent they wanted. The powers that be allowed it because it wasn’t a wage. AND, it gave the gubamints the excuse to create similar plans for the politically connected. So, end pensions; the private sector has done that already for the most part. Put the companies out of the medical insurance business. Make people buy their own medical insurance out of their own pockets.
Perhaps we can just tell people that “sorry, you are on your own” because when the gubamint is involved, you really are on your own. Depending upon the gubamint, as we learned from Katrina, can get you killed.
Women … to weak? Needing the gubamint to change ssi, pension rules, and working conditions.
Please, don’t make me laugh. My paternal grandmother traveled the Oregon Trail, raised 13 kids without a husband, and canned stuff until she went to a nursing home for her last six months of her 97 year life. She was proud “poor” woman who never took “nuthing from nobody and certain wasn’t taking any shit from anyone”. My maternal granmother raised an extended family during the Great Depression, worked for in hotel nights while her husband worked days, and again never took anythign from anyone. Weak! Can’t do anything! You have to be joshing me.
Most women I know can take lemons and make lemonade. Maybe if the gubamint didn’t take literally everything, then everyone would have more in their “golden years”.
When you look at the tax load, I think it is truly incalcuable. The men over at Free talk Live http://freetalklive.com even get it wrong.
(1) All taxes paid by businesses are really paid by the individuals who buy their stuff. That tax burden is hidden.
(2) Sales taxes are paid with after earnings are taxed by the various income taxes.
(3) Interest and dividends are taxed as well.
(4) “Capital Gains” are taxed even when they are nothing more than “inflation gains”.
(5) Gasoline and energy, which are factored in everything, get special added taxes.
(6) Wages are taxed by “social security insurance” which is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme. There is a hidden component, the “employer’s portion” which directly reduces what an employer will pay an employee. There are other hidden taxes for unemployment, and anything else the polictians can sneak by.
(7) Other employer benefits get a tax treatment like “excess life insurance”. Some benefits are made much more expensive by government action and regulation.
(8) Gubamint at all levels regulate things that cost, but are not recognizable as a tax.
(9) If you do manage to save something, inflation (i.e., the gubamint counterfeiting scheme) steals the value of your savings.
(10) AND, if you actually die with some assets, then the gubamint reaches in to the grave to pick you pocket.
That’s why we need to take up the pitchforks and torches!
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