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Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Whoever started the idea for offspring to leave home at age 18 or 21 is evil genius
-- Genesis 2:24
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
-- Matthew 19:5
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
-- Mark 10:7
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
-- Ephesians 5:31
A nation of brothers, a nation of usurers
Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou
shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all
that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to
possess it.
-- Deuteronomy 23:19f.
Yoram Hazony didn't invent the reasoning: They inherited it from Saul the Pharisee, the co-opter of "Christianity"
Being chosen means you get to tell everybody else what to think, what to do, and how to do it. Of course, there's a charge for that.
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[I]f the root is holy, so are the branches. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree, do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember it is not you that support the root, but the root that supports you. ... For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree. ... For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.
-- Romans 11:16ff.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Monday, February 10, 2020
OK geezer
Whatever happened to 65 and out? ... Can you name a single institution of American life that’s functioning better today than it was before the boomers took over?
Matthew Hennessey must be like 120 years old to know how things were before the boomers took over.
Someone really should tell this guy full retirement age is 66-67, not 65, for people born in 1943 and later. To get what people used to get at 65, THEY MUST WORK LONGER.
There are 10.347 million 65 and older working in 2019 on average. The 65s were born in 1954. There's 4.07 million right there. They hit full retirement age this year, at 66. But after that it starts stretching out: 66 years 2 months if born in 1955, then 66 years 4 months, and so on until 1960 when full retirement age is 67 years old. And there's over 4 million in each of those years, too. So you think it's bad now, just you wait Henry Higgins, just you wait.
Go ask these people if they wish they could retire already. A majority of them would rather be among the 42 million their age who are no longer in the labor force. And that will become more true with every passing year. Believe me.
Meanwhile 48 million GenXers are employed. They are not being stifled by 10 million who refuse to retire.
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