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Synikul · 07-01-07

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Originally Posted by Dark Messiah

Social Security- $586.1 billion
Unemployment and Welfare- $367.0 billion
Education- $89.9 billion

That's what I fucking mean. We spend ten times as much paying people to be unproductive as we do giving kids the tools they need to make the world a better place.

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But what we pay into it doesn't actually cover what it costs us (ditto to Social Security), especially when politicians gladly take the money that is put into it and squander that on other projects and graft. So then we have to go into debt to pay back what we borrowed. The government's like a spoiled college kid with a new credit card from their parents, honestly. They have no self-control or forethought.

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No, obviously we don't want to fuck over the people that've been paying into social security and unemployment for years. But we can work on refunding that money and slowly decreasing those programs while boosting more important ones (like education and defense), instead of allowing them to continually spiral.

I knew I'd eventually find something we can agree on. I'd even be for more money going into education, as long as we bust every teacher's union in the country FIRST.

JOEBIALEK · **good points -** 07-01-07

good points

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