George Bush said, what?

George Bush said, what? He said the the thing he regretted most about his presidency was not privatizing Social Security. That was the one thing. Not the trillion-dollar disaster in the middle-east. Not partying it up as New Orleans drowned. Not sitting there like a dummy for 7 minutes in the classroom when informed of 9/11. Not 9/11. What he regretted most was not doing away with SSI. Not nailing that SSI cash cow for the cronies. Because, to The Cronies Everlasting, we are the help; our sole purpose is to provide for them. That the masses pay out and the cronies don't get a cut is abhorrent to them. It's un-American to them.

The state of "the market" when Bush left office was "bearish," to be "correct." It was an unfortunate downturn that nobody could have predicted. Unquote. No malfeasance in the housing bubble, just a bunch of rogue lenders out for their commissions, duping management with their secret, wily shenanigans.

The concept of "shareholders first," with banks, leaves the banks customers as "second," or "last," if you're counting. Weren't banks supposed to be places people let hold their money, for a fee? Yeah, I remember that. That's how it used to be when "We the People" meant us citizens with flesh bodies, as opposed to us citizens with marble bodies. Before the Roberts Court. Scalia's court. Reagan's court. Before Reaganism swept across the land and issued in the End Times.

SSI was created for a reason, because people get old, can't work any more, and run out of money. The anti-SSI never wants old folks to fade away somewhere, that would be rude, they can go to charities. And beg. Forget any dignity from having worked all their lives, they have "no right to my money." Never mind they may have actually fought for the country, "they have no right to what I've earned." (Wave flag here.)

SSI is the most civilized thing about this country. Public school is up there, but it's cut off at college, which is just to price out the riff raff. Universal healthcare would be way civilized, but it would be admitting that Europeans are right, and fuck that shit. Manly man countries don't need nothin' from nobody, and keep your hands off of my stack.

That's why it's so easy to sell "every man for himself," it's way sexier than reality. Reality is that no man ever survived for very long going it absolutely alone. And, America has always been a barn-raising, pull-together, never leave a man down, UNITED states country. Somebody's been watching too many cowboy movies. Hospitals were born in this country in poor houses. This is literal, they were born in poor houses, which were funded by the government.

We have always looked out for one-another, that is our history. The "I don't owe you nothin'" motto is a sad motto for a country. Does it get any less unified than that? Any less civilized? Any more doomed to fail?