ARperson
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My tenant who's leaving this weekend came over to let me know the details...and to say that his mailbox has been smashed to smithereens again! I made the comment that society is going to hell in a handbasket. Well, that opened up a 45-minute discussion between him and me.
Some of his "jewels"
1. He's against repealing Roe v Wade because he sees it has an erosion of civil rights (not to get into the abortion debate, but that is big for him because he hates government intrustion in our lives and feels like preventing a woman from having choice over her body is such an intrusion) but thinks that all guns should be registered, you shouldn't have a go-fast switch, and spouted those BS statistics about having a gun in the home. Seems like the erosion of civil rights only applies to those he wants to have.
2. His father is set up nicely for retirement BECAUSE OF THE UNION. I asked him how my grandfather and mother have been so successful after retirement without the union. I also asked him if was saying that his father was too stupid to prepare for his own retirement, because if the UNION was the reason his dad was successful, removal of that factor would mean his dad would have failed, yes?
3. Thinks social security is a good thing, but doesn't think that a private account with people paying into it (think: paying the same way by income witholding, but into a personal account instead of the fed's general fund) is better than the system we have now. He kept arguing that his daughter making $7/hr at Mickie D's wouldn't allow her to put anything into savings while trying to raise her son. I couldn't get him to understand that she would be paying the same way, the same amount, but it would be into a savings account solely for HER. Then he asks me what account earns money that way. Oh, I don't know, just about every interest-bearing account out there. THe girl is only 29. If she put all that soc. sec. money into a private account that earned interest and kept it there (compounding, mind you) until age 65, she'd be set. And it wouldn't be anymore money out of her pocket than it is now.
The list goes on and on.
I just want to know why I even bothered. I've been down that path before. Why? Why? :banghead:
Some of his "jewels"
1. He's against repealing Roe v Wade because he sees it has an erosion of civil rights (not to get into the abortion debate, but that is big for him because he hates government intrustion in our lives and feels like preventing a woman from having choice over her body is such an intrusion) but thinks that all guns should be registered, you shouldn't have a go-fast switch, and spouted those BS statistics about having a gun in the home. Seems like the erosion of civil rights only applies to those he wants to have.
2. His father is set up nicely for retirement BECAUSE OF THE UNION. I asked him how my grandfather and mother have been so successful after retirement without the union. I also asked him if was saying that his father was too stupid to prepare for his own retirement, because if the UNION was the reason his dad was successful, removal of that factor would mean his dad would have failed, yes?
3. Thinks social security is a good thing, but doesn't think that a private account with people paying into it (think: paying the same way by income witholding, but into a personal account instead of the fed's general fund) is better than the system we have now. He kept arguing that his daughter making $7/hr at Mickie D's wouldn't allow her to put anything into savings while trying to raise her son. I couldn't get him to understand that she would be paying the same way, the same amount, but it would be into a savings account solely for HER. Then he asks me what account earns money that way. Oh, I don't know, just about every interest-bearing account out there. THe girl is only 29. If she put all that soc. sec. money into a private account that earned interest and kept it there (compounding, mind you) until age 65, she'd be set. And it wouldn't be anymore money out of her pocket than it is now.
The list goes on and on.
I just want to know why I even bothered. I've been down that path before. Why? Why? :banghead:
