“The third rail of American Politics”.

[cbelt3]

Social Security and Medicare.

Are being eviscerated by people who were not elected. Don’t care about reelections. Know full well that democracy is being killed. And never rode a subway in their oligarch lives.

American media has to stop saying “oh they would never…”.

They are.

[mattkime]

cbelt3 wrote: by people who were not elected.

The people who were elected are standing by and watching it happen.

[special]

I almost think we’d be better off with two countries: US Blue and US Red. See which country has better Medicare, Medicaid, SS, employment, better infrastructure, better education, more freedom.

[vision63]

If government money goes into it, the Oligarchs want it delivered to them.

[mrbigstuff]

Thank you sir! May I have another!

[Ombligo]

Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan are all smiling from the beyond

[vision63]

Ombligo wrote:
Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan are all smiling from the beyond

It's funny seeing more evil than them.

[cbelt3]

Ombligo wrote:
Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan are all smiling from the beyond

And yet… many of them founded centers of art and learning that live on. The current oligarchs have no sense of “noblesse oblige”.