Posted on 02/07/2011 9:06:51 AM PST by Route797
Americans have been used, strung along, ripped off, manipulated and frightened for decades by runaway gangs of power-mongering, deceptive politicians.
I give you Social Security. As usual, it is the exact opposite of what we have been told. This classic Ponzi scheme is anti-social and insecure.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt created Social Security 75 years ago. As with many other Fedzilla programs, Americans got suckered into believing Social Security was a healthy, wealthy and wise program.
Social Security is bloated, broke and busted. FDR’s New Deal turned out to be the Rip-off Deal.
There is an IOU for $2.5 trillion in the Social Security trust fund. Our elected bandits stole all the Social Security taxes collected over the years and spent it on who knows what.
The Congressional Budget Office recently stated that Social Security will pay out $45 billion more this year than what it takes in. Deficits such as this are projected until Social Security rolls over and goes completely belly-up 25 years from now.
The only way to truly reform Social Security is to sink it. Settling for anything less than the total destruction of this financial sinkhole would be perpetuating the problem and allowing Fedzilla to continue to pick the pockets of future generations of Americans.
We must have the guts and national resolve to remove the crushing tax burden of this Ponzi scheme from the backs of future Americans. Only Fedzilla and Bernard Madoff think robbing Peter to pay Paul is good business.
Eliminating Social Security isn’t our Sputnik moment. It’s our sink-the-Bismarck moment.
We can’t sink it today, but we can begin planning today how to sink it.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Read the following regarding Ted and the draft. It includes a link to an image of a letter written in the man’s own hand.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9a1_1250550290
...He has the rage, but he doesn't have the war record. At 18, he was called up to serve in Vietnam. "In 1977 you gave an interview to High Times [the cannabis user's journal of record] where you claimed you defecated in your clothes to avoid the draft."
("I got 30 days' notice of the physical," Nugent told them. "I ceased cleansing my body. Two weeks before the test I stopped eating food with nutritional value. A week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. My pants got crusted up.")
"I never shit my pants to get out of the draft," says Nugent, good-naturedly.
"You also told them you took crystal meth [methamphetamine, the highly destabilising drug sometimes described as poor man's crack] before the medical - as a result of which, and I quote: 'I got this big juicy 4F.'"
"Unbelievable. Meth," [emphasis mine] he replies, in a tone of deep sarcasm. "Yes, that's my drug of choice. You've got to realise that these interviewers would arrive with glazed eyes and I would make stories up. I never did crystal meth. And I never pooped my pants."
I've included a bit of the before and after interview contents, as it seems, Ted seemed to be sarcastically toying with the interviewer.
Read it for your self and make a judgment based on what appear to be Ted's own (more recent) words here.
A quick note: I can’t see the image in the LiveLeak article, as it’s hosted by an image hosting service that’s blocked on the domain I am using. I guess I’ll defer commenting on that part of the article’s content.
Good luck with that. Social Security was never anything more than a tax on current workers to pay current retirees. And we don’t have enough workers at this point to keep the scheme going.
That’s all very nice. None of it changes the fact that Social Security is by definition an entitlement.
Try a defition:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/entitlement
See the second one:
2: a government program providing benefits to members of a specified group; also : funds supporting or distributed by such a program
Social Security fits that bill.
The federal budget is divided into sections. The largest of which is entitlements. Social Security is in that section.
If you don’t happen to like using the proper definition, tough luck.
Maybe you’re simply confused that entitlement=welfare. It doesn’t mean that necessarily. However your confusion doesn’t justify twisting the language. The use of accepted terms is a requirement of having a rational debate.
Then again the way you flew off the handle when corrected makes me think you aren’t looking for such.
Good point.
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