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delisen

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6. Public sector Retirees were NOT defeatist. They won.
Wed Jun 18, 2025, 04:18 PM
Jun 18

They had paid into the system but were denied their benefit. After many years They recently won.

No matter how resilient we are the pervasive Republican propaganda takes a toll.

Let’s plow ahead and remind each other that we have the right to set up a comprehensive aging worker retirement program, and we have the right to make it work.

It should be a no-brainer. It is a worker insurance program. Insurance is not welfare. If businesses did not pay into the program, thy would have to pay each worker more money because each worker would have ro set up more private accounts to build up a nest egg to carry them through retirement to the end of their lives. Some would not see aside enough and we would all be living in a Victorian horror show. Kids in the street begging for slices o read, aged folks dying in the gutters,
Republicanism does not work. Privatizing everything does not work. Getting together as a society to plan for our needs and
Build our social infrastructure works.

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