News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
ALBANY, NY—There has been a lot of debate on whether or not to reopen schools. And while the science is clear that schools are not a big risk for the spread of COVID-19, Democrats have expressed another fear over people going to school: children learning enough that they no longer trust the wisdom of government or believe in socialism.
“People keep talking to me like I’m dumb and I don’t know what I’m doing,” said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. “It’s because when people learn things they think they know better than me — me, the governor — so no more schools. I’m shutting them down.”
The move has been praised by other Democrats, such as Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “Whenever I talk about my plans to give people lots of free stuff, people always bring up math,” Ocasio-Cortez complained. “I don’t know what that is, but apparently it’s some crazy right-wing thing you learn at schools that makes you not like socialism. Maybe people should just stay away from schools.” Ocasio-Cortez also pointed out that schooling is unnecessary for the future occupation of staying home while the government sends you checks.
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Yes, let us do away with Social Security and Medicare. These programs are corrupting to us as recipients and the government by creating moral hazards for both plus the medical profession itself which creates disease profiles that result in needless tests to increase their charges as my experience indicates. And of course there are the drug companies who exploit the system. Both programs are a license to steal by the public, government, medical profession, etc. And while we are at it also do away with the Federal Reserve which is worse than either for moral hazards.
Millions of Americans don’t really need Social Security or Medicare right now. So lets begin phasing them out now. Doing this would give power back to the people and take it away from the government. The big problem is Americans are addicted to them. The Great Chastisement will change that painful as it will be.
There is another problem with Social Sec–people stop having children.
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https://mises.org/library/making-kids-worthless-social-securitys-contribution-fertility-crisis
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Contrary to what TBB indicates, the government really ought to want to get the children back because that is where the children are conditioned for socialism and learn critical race theory.
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