by The Real American

Created on: March 07, 2010

This is a very interesting, open-ended, and politically loaded question… and I love it, since operates on three distinct levels [or planes] of perceptual social responsibility and thought! Consequently, let us multi-track together along the lines of these three very specific concepts.

First, the question: “Should everyone have the ‘Right to Retire’ at some point” implies that they most obviously and currently don’t… and that, perhaps, we should do something as a society to address that particular lack of institutionalized social unfairness. However, this political argument is clearly specious, invalid, and honestly untrue!

All Americans possess an inherent “Right” to the work of their own personal choosing! The fact that, “you choose, not to work” in no way abridges, ameliorates, or even suspends these rights… even, as your choice, “to engage in non-profit work [or activities]” is equally protected under our codified statutes and laws. Therefore, you already possess a “Right To Retire.”

Second, the question: “Should everyone have the ‘Right To Retire At Some Point,’” implies that human beings are incapable [on their own] to honestly achieve such highly beneficial outcomes without State or Federal involvement… and that our overall society should conceivably provide ample provisioning for that ongoing social reality. Again, this argument is specious, invalid, and untrue!

Human beings are fully capable of providing for themselves a respite from certain and arduous labors by proper habits of spending, saving, and investing over a lifetime of work… and they would even be able to do more so, if the various governments wouldn’t squeeze every solitary dime [conceivable] out of their taxpaying and economic slaves.

Meanwhile, simple “Ponzi Schemes” - such as Social Security [factually is, by governmental admission] – are a societal menace and drain away hard working people’s money at the very time when actually possessing it might really do them some good. A significantly larger paycheck, in your right pants pocket, means far more to someone first starting out; than someone who has everything already paid for!

They can buy a nice and decent home, rather than expending every hard fought for penny on renting a ramshackle trailer, or to live in a [frequently crumbling] tenement house. They can drive a nice,

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