Today's GOP

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by merrylander

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.

Rob, from what I have read of your posts here, it seems to me that all through your life you have made decisions based on what you thought was best for you, tempered by how the decision would affect others. You chose how to educate yourself, you chose who you would work for, the assignments and tasks laid before you that you would accept, compromises you would have to make so you could continue to reach your goals. You have balanced the pros and cons of the situations as they arose and made your decisions. Things appear to have worked out very well for you. that is the kind of personal responsibility I was speaking of. You knew full well that if you lived and worked here in this country that you would have to go along with income taxes, FICA taxes, Medicare taxes, traffic laws,ad nauseam. You have made the best of an imperfect situation, not by wanting or asking for help from Big Brother, but by hitting the problems head on. Again, that is the personal responsibility I wish everyone would exercise.