You own the option to buy the security, which is held by someone who charges a fee for providing the option. The underlying security cant be sold or traded while there is an option for it.
So no, thats not how it works. If you have a problem with free markets go back to China. If you have a problem with blatant and open fraud, like what was detailed in The Big Short then call that out.
Your knowledge of history is childish. The Marshall Plan was enacted in 1948 after we had brutally subjugated both countries into vassalage after it turned out Uncle Joe wasn't all that great. What happened between 1945 and 1948? Watch this old piece of propoganda made after WW2 by Dr. Suess himself.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yb2YenLG_rQ&t=11s&bpctr=1612115687
That was the prevailing attitude of the day. And its fairly typical behaviour of the conquerors over the defeated. Unless you're chomping at the bit to spend a ton of money in the middle eastern countries we've been bombing for 19 years straight.
Whats the actual issue here? If he was writing and calling his representatives in government to do something doesnt he have a right to be pissed at someone who spent an hour a week on the Q board divining messages, as if General Flynn was building a secretly openly obvious secret army? Why can't OP be mad that others got distracted? Why cant OP suggest that those who werent distracted shouldnt trust the easily distracted to stay on topic?
What exactly is the point you're making and is there more than FUD in your posting history?
Then Trump should have gone into those agencies, sat at their directors desks, and start firing every mother fucker from the top down that couldn't clearly justify and explain their job and how it improved America.
I mean, wtf do these people get paid to do all day? Those agencies are so fucking corrupt and mismanaged that if you fired half the employees at random you'd probably get an improvement.
But sitting Comey down and asking him no to keep up the russiagate BS? Fucking useless. He shoulda fired him then and there, and told the next mother fucker in line to have answers on wtf is so rotten at the FBI by the end of the month or they're fired too.
Ya know what, fuck that. He shoulda fired every god damned employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DOI, DHS; Gone to congress the next day explaining how colossally these agencies have been screwing over the country they're supposed to protect, and said the US martials will do all countrywide criminal investigations and the military will handle all intelligence. We dont need new nightmare 3 letter agencies that cant justify existing when older agencies were doing the same thing?
What did happen? 4 years of edging ourselves on indictments, kim.com drops, and a storm coming in while Trump sat around with Kim Kardashian getting maybe 300 idiots out of Prison as the federal government and its budget have become parabolic. We don't have a debt ceiling or borrowing limits anymore and the Federal Reserve is operating on Modern Monetary Theory guaranteeing massive inflation over the next decade.
We fucked up. We all fucked up
"The Social Security trust funds hold money and, by law, invest it in special Treasury bonds that are guaranteed by the U.S. Government."
So it goes to the government. Whats the difference between it going directly to the government and the government borrowing the money from itself? How can an entity borrow money from itself?
"So my grandparents and parents never got any of the money they paid in SS for their retirement."
No, the government spent it all and the difference between soc sec in and soc sec out is recorded as loans from the government to itself.
Its just set up to look respectable, when it isnt.
You dont get what you paid. The social security tax is completely unrelated to social security retirement benefits. Your benefits are determined by a formula that congress changes yearly. There is no fund that your social security is paid into waiting to be paid back to you once you retire.
A question was asked: What happens to all the money people paid into social security?
I gave an answer. You never paid into anything, that was a tax. It never went into a fund. If you want the equivalent of social security in the newly formed Republic of Texas then you just start a new Texan social security. This is not a position I am advocating for, it is an answer to a question.
Do you understand that social security taxes are wholely unrelated to social security benefits, and that those taxes are used like any other tax: to fun the government. There is no retirement account it goes into, like a pension fund or IRA
Social security is also not a ponzi scheme. People running ponzi schemes dont have the power to take money from everyones biweekly paycheck and throw them in jail if they resist.
Buy physical, from a local shop, when it dips again. After the Kung Flu is over.