Multi-Millionaire Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein Says Americans Should Work Longer and Receive Fewer Benefits

he's right, you guys are broke! Stop being lazy & start working!

Don't generalize. Many of us work our asses off. It's the bottom feeders that are killing us.

But WHY are we broke. Think government and military spending... And we should stop being lazy??

How do you know, Oh Dumb One?

Then again you are also from Finland so I wouldn't expect you to know much about American politics or economy

Yup this is a another problem. Everyone hates us now which means that we have to spend trillions of $ on military. VERY SAD!!!!!!!

Nah, that S.O.B. just wants to privatize SS & Medicare funds so he & his rich crony bastard buddies on Wall St can skim a huge hunk of it off the top and leave less for the people who actually paid into those funds all their working lives.

Who else will fund the bailouts?

Mr Blankfein does not expect to...

Hmmm lets take a look at military expenditures vs. the real weight around our necks...entitlement spending!

[link to blog.heritage.org]

^^^THIS^^^

What a fucking sack of shit. These 'too big to fail' CEO cocksuckers who got bailed out should have been lynched and dragged through the streets, maybe strung up at Battery Park. Fuck-face Blankfein and Moynihan of B of A should have been right up front.

There is another factor, yet it would be unwise not to consider military spending as a hefty contributor to the debt. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars more on military than any other country in the world, while also having bases in over 100 different countries. Why?

Why? Because everyone hates us!! We have a fear mongering government that likes wars because it's lucrative for the the big corporations that control wall street. Their day will come and it won't be pretty for anyone.

So the International Parasite Jew-Banksters like Lord Blankfein can force the world to accept the worthless Federal Reserve Note, of course, while they buy up all the real assets they can get their Zio-mitts on!

We're the so-called west's and the multinational corporations main muscle, that's why. It's all bullshit. Some of our allies like the British punch above their weight, and the French do a lot too, but many of our allies don't pull their weight and it's bullshit.

Plus military spending means big $ for many congressional districts. Eisenhower was right in his farewell address about the military-industrial complex.

...I think you mean, everyone hates us because we start wars and have bases in the rest of the world, not the other way around. You're talking about effect, not cause.

He is correct - we just don't like to hear it from a rich and entitled kind of person. But really, our retirement age should probably raise to 70. The elderly shouldn't be receiving as much health care as they are. Wealthy elderly shouldn't be receiving as much social security as they are. Lastly, state and federal government workers should not be allowed to draw a pension after twenty years - OMG - what is that all about? Vest them, but don't pay out until the person reaches 70 - just like everyone else. I know government workers who are drawing a couple of different pension plans plus a salary from their current job. That's BS.

The elderly don't want to hear these things and say they can't afford to receive less. Well, the elderly lived through the most prosperous time in our history and maybe it's time they sell their paid-for homes and move to an apartment over their kids' garage in order to fund their retirements. They shouldn't expect their grand-kids and great-grandkids to go further into debt to pay for their lifestyles when they didn't bother to save enough. That's kind of their problem. And before you all go bashing me, I'm 50 myself.

Capitalism...........

Nope.

Corporate-Facistic Banksterism.

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