The biggest grift in the history of the United States isn’t a Ponzi scheme. It isn’t a crooked casino. It isn’t some guy in a cheap suit selling you a miracle investment from the back of a van. No. The greatest grift is convincing ordinary people to spend fifty years of their lives working so they can finally afford to stop working when they’re seventy. Think about that...
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America condemns socialism while embracing Social Security, Medicare, public schools, and corporate subsidies. Maybe we're arguing about the wrong thing.
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