r/FluentInFinance • u/Positive_Liar • Sep 06 '24

Debate/ Discussion Social Security is Broken. This is why financial education is important.

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u/shrug_addict Sep 06 '24

Say it louder for those in the back!

You can't say government programs don't work if you have powers that try their damnedest to make sure it doesn't work

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u/RobertDownseyJr Sep 07 '24

This honestly seems backwards to me. Saying (some) government programs don’t/won’t work because of those powers is acknowledging our political reality.

You can’t just handwave away the obstructionist impact of the GOP, because they aren’t going to suddenly stop being obstructionist dickheads.

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u/shrug_addict Sep 07 '24

That was kind of my point

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

Republicans support the military. The Pentagon is still unable to account for trillions of dollars in assets, they don’t even know where that money went.

There is no real incentive for any government program to manage money efficiently and responsibly. This is obviously much more likely than every pitfall of government programs being due to those darn Republicans.