Taking Money From The Pockets Of The Rich?

Individual Responsibility is acceptable, but there also needs to be Social Responsibility.

If people are not paid living wages, they end up needing government assistance. That means taxpayer funds are subsidizing wages. And that is corporate welfare.

Infrastructure is a Social Responsibility.

Companies don't like paying an equal portion of Social Security because they think it is their money. In reality, it is the cost of employing someone. Social Security taxes are 12.4%, whether paid by the self-employed or by splitting costs between employees and employers. Splitting means employees have other taxes taken only on half the 12.4%. Do you think if companies did not have to pay ½, employees' pay would increase so they could pay the 12.4%?

How about universal healthcare? The US system is third-world and profit-driven. A deductible of $6,000? 20-50% co-pays? How many have insurance they can't afford to use? Single-payer is not socializing healthcare. Hospitals, clinics, and labs wouldn't be nationalized. It's like car insurance—spreading the costs by having a bigger pool paying in.

40 years of trickle-down and a refusal to adjust rates have left Social Security with a 10-year solvency instead of 75 years. It's a manufactured crisis. 

Greed—the refusal of people to give employees any of the rewards for productivity increases. It's class warfare on the middle- and lower-classes by the wealthy and their corporations.

People are not asking to take money out of your pockets. They are asking for their fair share up front so they don't have to beg for assistance.

Human Gender Is Not Binary

Original Facebook comment by me in a post by Kat Carlson concerning the disrespectful comments about the LGBTQ+ community:

A response to my comment:

The response by Culture Guard that I displayed was, as reiterated in its first paragraph, to a comment about "sexual species," not specifically humans. However, the reply does go on to explain how a binary view of "human" sexuality is absurd. Thus, I do think there is a point. Culture Guard is not just comparing insects to humans. They are explaining how chromosomes and genetics work.

Not just one gene on one chromosome determines gender or sexual identity. There are multiple factors at play. Some people are asexual wholly or partly—their sexual attraction is lessened or absent. Some are attracted to both genders. There are people born with both male and female sexual organs. Some girls grow a penis at age 12.

Do you still think gender is binary? Male or female?  Point out which gene on what chromosome is on or off that would make gender binary in human beings.

It is a spectrum. It's not just genitalia that makes one male or female. Each person has different levels of estrogen and testosterone. And there are trillions of neurons in our brains, and those connections influence sexuality and attraction.

There are multiple ways genital development can go wrong, including in the formation of sensory nerves. Culture Guide’s reply covered human X and Y chromosomes and how unusual things can happen. How many genes on just those two chromosomes have a part to play in our sexual identities?

And it's not just genes that are involved. Add in epigenetics. The epigenome surrounding DNA has control over whether genes are ON or OFF. It's like software that runs on the genetic DNA hardware.

Did you know that estrogen and testosterone have their own little arms race via the duplication of genes that create the hormones? That they essentially compete to outproduce each other? 

Should we do an analysis of peoples' complete genomes and use our limited understanding to tell them that they are either "normal" or are an abomination? Should we tell people that who they are is illegal and wrong? That's my opinion as to why religion and those who use their faith to govern their personal lives should have nothing bad to say about sexuality and who adults are allowed to love in consensual relationships.

Did you know that the texts in the Bible about homosexuality are deliberate mistranslations by people with an agenda? The original translations referred to pedophilia as being forbidden, not same-sex relations.

And what of the modern obsession with banning “gender-affirming” care for minors being somehow wrong? Do treatments that were developed for cis (straight) children being used in cases of gender dysphoria render all such care suspect whether the recipient is straight or on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum? Such care usually does not involve hormone treatments, and very rarely is surgery necessary. Note that surgical interventions also include correction or reconstruction of the genitals or breasts of straight children, whether the problem was due to birth defects, accidents, or puberty onset problems (such as a need for male breast reductions).

A binary view of gender and sexuality? How absurd.

Liberal World Order?

My response to a very old video with problems that have already been solved.

Biden inherited the mess; he didn't create it. And I hardly think Biden would ever claim that we are entering a "new liberal world order." That is just stupid. This is just misinformation and fear-mongering.

What would this new liberal order look like? Universal Healthcare without bankruptcies like most Western nations already have? Free higher education? Living wages? An independent judicial system that is not dependent on fines and court fees?

How about ending Debtor's Prison (criminal contempt of court when you can't pay what collection agencies demand)?

Fewer for-profit charter schools that teach whatever they want by people without any teaching credentials to students handpicked to exclude difficult (less-profitable) children? The charter system that leaves public schools with increased expenses with a budget that pays a set amount per pupil, now with fewer students?

How about that liberal idea of clean water, air, and soil?

Things like not making optional the upgrades needed to change the civil-war era braking systems on freight trains so more communities are not wiped off the map in preventable tragedies?

How about that liberal notion of letting people be themselves instead of trying to cram them into an inaccurate binary gender classification system?

An end to the sacrosanct modern revision of the Second Amendment so AR-15s are not in the hands of criminals and the mentally ill. (The militia referred to in the actual wording of the Second Amendment is today's National Guard.)

All of this gets lost when liberalism is defined by guns (Stand-Your-Ground, no restrictions), religion (freedom only for Christians), and abortion (the Fourteenth Amendment that underpins so many other rights having been declared irrelevant by today's Supreme Court).

Where does the third K go when spelling Kentucky?

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