When the Ilk want to privatize SocSec,
Who is "the Ilk" exactly?
that program is "MY money for MY pension. The gummint should cease its useless middleman role, with its expensive red-tape, and just return the money to ME."
But when they want to blame the country's ills on communists taxing Job Creators™ to fund Welfare Mama™, SocSec morphs into just another "social program;"
Do you have some trouble using normal words or what? "Gummint"? Are you ok?
I do not think SocSec should be a private program, so I do not see what your point is here.
It is undeniably a government program though.
misusing money that could better be spent building walls and killing Muslims.
Why should Muslims be exempt from military action when they do things like attack merchant shipping?
As to the wall, it is a good idea - one of the few good ideas Trump has. Not just a wall though - it needs to be monitored with border patrol at the ready because it can't stoop crossings, just slow them down. And it must be combined with policies like the end of "catch and release" and reform of the asylum law that millions of illegals are shamelessly abusing. Here as well as in Europe.
But we are getting off topic.
Do you disagree that we need a strong defense? Or that US already spends a lot on social programs?
Add this tip to the course in "How to Lie with Statistics": When making a bar graph, do NOT use ordinary straight bars, or even pie cuts. Instead use concentric circles and put the items you consider too big on the outermost circles. Most people won't notice that this misrepresents the relative graph areas.
I did not make the graph, and I do think the intention was to deceive, but to represent different ways the pie (no pun intended) can be cut on the same graph. Let's not compare lengths of the arcs though - there are dollar amounts on the graphs, as well as percentages. And $747G is not much less than $751G, and that is just one social program US government has compared with the entire DoD budget.
Yes, this graphic comes from Wikipedia. What a joke that has become!
The image is hosted by wikipedia, yes, but the graph comes from the
Congressional Budget Office. One thing wikipedia does is cite its sources. The CBO website version of the graph is an interactive one, so I posted the static image from wikipedia.
This is a propaganda idea very popular with the Ilk,
Do you disagree that companies like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are public and that anyone can own their stock, and that many Americans do, whether individually or in different funds they own?
to make Americans think they're participants in capitalist success.
Again, who is "the ilk"? You don't even write "your ilk" but "the Ilk" with a definite article and capitalized. Who is that exactly?
Also reminds me of a quote by the late great Douglas Adams.
Douglas Adams said:
The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.
Most retirees who have a 401K or SEP-IRA earn much more from their SocSec than from their investments.
[citation needed] on that claim.
they support tax cuts on investment income, unaware that they're already in the zero bracket!
[citation needed] on that one too.