This is funny because Bernie is admitting SS is a Ponzi scheme but wouldn’t be if they significantly changed it!
▪️Remember, SS was sold to the American people as sort of an insurance policy, not welfare. Supposedly, you paid in during your working years and then got what you paid back in retirement. That’s why there is a cap on annual SS taxes, it’s not supposed to be an entitlement or welfare, but merit-based where people don’t freeload off others.
▪️What happened in reality is many ended up receiving much more in SS benefits than they contributed and the program was/is unsustainable without a bunch of new workers entering in (aka a Ponzi scheme). So now, Bernie is saying the original SS program is a fraud so just make it into another welfare program funded by the rich.
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
