[monday]

"stop their pay UNTIL SS is well financed, etc."

How? They certainly are not going to cut off their own pay. It would have been nice if the founding fathers had for seen this and put in more constitutional limitations on taxation. If either of you has an idea, lets hear it.

Logically they shouldn't make a dime if the government is running a deficit, but they won't see it that way. Politicians of both parties see their jobs as getting the biggest chunk of the federal pie for their own constituents as possible, in order to stay in power, so they can do the same thing next year.

They use our own money to buy votes so they can stay in power. They ought to be shot for treason, instead they get re-elected year after year.

[babble-on]

fully agree w/ you. I was just offering a translation of the other poster's comment, which I think was tongue-in-cheek anyway.

Seriously, I fear that the public won't accept Social Security reform until more of them understand basic accounting, but it kills me to think that Republicans may let this opportunity to at least make a terrible system a tiny bit better slip through their fingers. It is time for someone to explain the Social Security Trust Fund to the public.

Even a pretty sophisticated financial journalist like John Berry, ex of the Washington Post showed over the weekend at www.bloomberg.com that he has absolutely no comprehension of the sleight-of-hand behind the so-called Trust Fund.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

They use our own money to buy votes so they can stay in power. They ought to be shot for treason, instead they get re-elected year after year.

The voters bear equal blame. The more they demand, the more politicians spend.