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Originally Posted by catswiththum
I give up.
The only thing I can relate to is concern for your son.
The rest is extremism.
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Yeah, it's really extreme to expect the United States of America and the State of Florida to come through with the retirement benefits that they promised me and for which I exchanged the best years of my life.
And it's also really extreme to think that the United States of America can provide all of it's citizens decent healthcare like all of western Europe, Canada, Hell even fucking Cuba.
No, we can't afford that.
All we can afford is one useless wasteful trillion dollar war followed by another plus another trillion or so to bail out Wall Street because they made some bad bets with other people's money. That's reasonable.
But what I want, that's extreme.
You know it seems that us Americans are expected to accept all kinds of outrageous crap from the 1% like offshore tax havens, predatory business tactics, having teams of lobbyists and lawyers write legislation, etc. and that's all just fine and dandy, but when it comes to giving the average schmuck an even break, well that's dismissed as "extremism".