That's rich calling me a RINO when you made your money working for a unionized company. LOL. What you conspiracy theorists can't seem to grasp with all of this nonsense about turning us all into slaves, etc is that it already happened. Look around you. The middle class has been devastated. Half of the country if not more are now wage slaves. That's not a debt issue so much as it is an income issue. Of the rest who make a decent income they often are enslaved to their debt. And enslaved in their minds that they must live this way to prove they're worthy, not losers like those low income people. And attack anyone who doesn't follow suit. My dad has a nice home. And is going through his savings paying for a new air conditioner, a new well pump, a new roof on the house, repairing a sprinkler system, the list is endless. All for the privilege of paying rent to the government in property taxes. If one wants to do that more power to them. I don't think it's conservative or liberal to do that. It's cultural conditioning. And those non unionized companies that don't pay well, don't have good benefits? Very often run by conservatives whose only concern is what you can do for them for as little pay as possible. And guys like you with your keeping up with the Jones mentality enable it. You didn't do as well as I did therefore you're a loser. Know your place. How dare you figure out an alternative. You stay here and be poor. How dare you thrive when you didn't do like I did.
I am conservative. I fend for myself by figuring out what is available to me on my income. I didn't sit at home for decades living off the government. And I'm not going to accept a poor retirement in a country that's too expensive for at least half of the population to retire with any kind of dignity. And if that means living overseas, or living out of a car on Federal land, so be it. Beats sitting around all day toking on pot or getting wrapped up in conspiracy fantasies to explain why your retirement isn't going to plan.