Today's GOP

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by JJIII

That sounds like a call for personal responsibility.

We all depend on others fulfilling their part of the bargain. I depend on Bell providing my pension and fully funding it. I depend on the government fulfilling their part of the SS and Medicare bargain.

Where else would anyone suggest that we must break a contract because some people would prefer to not fulfill a contract? That sort of behaviour usually winds up with someone going to jail. Plus we none of us were given a choice FICA and Medicare were deducted at source. Even now they deduct Medicare Part B from my SS at source.

We depend on other drivers obeying the traffic rules, etc. There is so much inter-dependency in society that all the self-reliance talk borders on mythology.