Daily Wire face man Ben Shapiro sparked controversy on Tuesday when he advocated raising the US retirement age and called retirement itself “a stupid idea,” barring some kind of health issue.
Here is the video wherein Shapiro made his pitch for working until death:
When challenged on his castigation of retirement as “stupid,” Shapiro doubled down.
He went on to call Social Security a “Ponzi scheme.”
What Shapiro is missing – as Conservative hucksters stuck in the 80s are wont to do – is that Social Security is not a matter of pure economics.
Instead, as Sacred Scripture commands, we all have a duty to look after the needs of our elders.
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It’s worth noting that parent-child obligations are structured as a two-way street in the Bible.
So at least it shows a degree of internal consistency that an internet talking head who wants to dial back Social Security also opposes the state helping young folks they’ve subjected to usury.
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I’ve pointed out the moral correspondence between Social Security and student debt relief before, asking those who support state-sanctioned usury if they’d be willing to give up their entitlement benefits.
Because Shapiro does have an economic point. Social Security in an inverted pyramid scheme that’s taxing Gen X and Gen Y to pay for Baby Boomers’ retirements.
His appeal to the economic welfare of future generatio0ns does ring rather hollow in light of his stance on state usury that would leave younger gens languishing as debt slaves.
Nonetheless, he is standing on principle by going after retirees, which I already warned would happen.
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So current Conservative principle would seem to dictate that taxpayers have no duty either to their parents or their offspring. Economic activity is a purely private matter concerned only with the individual.
Unless it concerns dual citizens of a foreign country halfway around the world.
“If Israel is forced to the wall, the possibility of nuclear exchange is extremely high. That is why it is very important that the United States provide the material Aid to Israel.”
Note the ambiguous language. You can bet it’s by design, since the state of Israel maintains a policy of ambiguity over the number – and even the existence – of nuclear weapons in its arsenal.
This isn’t the first time Israel’s shadowy nuclear program has put the United States in a foreign relations pinch. President John F. Kennedy spent considerable time and effort trying to make Prime Minister Ben-Gurion agree to biannual inspections of the Israeli reactor site. JFK went so far as to issue what many perceived as an ultimatum, yet the Johnson administration never followed through.
What’s suspicious is how a paid spokesman cast by a Hollywood producer, who also happens to hold citizenship in a foreign nation, is telling American taxpayers that we have no financial obligations to our parents or our children.
While at the same time, he insists that American taxpayers finance his other country. It’s hard not to see as an international shakedown based on the veiled threat of weapons the US was uncomfortable with that country having in the first place.
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The principled solution to these problems would be making usury victims whole and fixing Social Security instead of cutting or trashing it.
And while we’re at it, maybe we should tighten the standards under which agents of foreign powers are allowed to advocate for their foreign interests.
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That seems to be the trend these days.
How about we apply it consistently?
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