” - - - There is no free lunch.”
This is one point that you and I can agree on.
For nearly 80 years, the Socialist/Con-Artist/Snake-Oil sales pitch has been “America will be better off with a cradle-to-grave Safety Net.”
From Northeastern Democrat FDR to Bolshevik Chairman Obama our Socialist Government has gotten larger, and our National Debt has gotten even larger than the rate of growth of the Socialist Wing of the former Democrat Party.
Today, the Socialist Wing of the US Federal Government overspends by 1.3 TRILLION dollars each year, and simply adds it to the National Debt to be paid for by our Grandchildren and their descendants.
These sorry, Federal politicians depend on the fact that we do not Impeach AND remove from office, or recall them.
Jail, of course is out of the question for the biggest thieves that the World has ever known: Elected Federal Politicians.
Due to the lack of curiosity on the part of the American taxpayer, and gullibility on the part of our sorry, brain-dead, Federal politicians, there exists the myth that somehow in a Nation with a 15 Trillion dollar Debt there exists a sacred “Trust” Fund for Social Security (see Reply # 21, this thread).
ALL OF ANY MONEY SENT TO DC GOES INTO THE GENERAL FUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NONE OF THAT MONEY GOES INTO A TRUST FUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THERE ARE NO, OR EVER HAVE BEEN, FEDERAL TRUST FUNDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE FEDERAL POLITICIANS CONTINUE TO LIE TO US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A “SHOW ME THE MONEY!” test quickly puts an end to this “Trust Fund” myth for ANY Federal Program.
There are no Federal Trust Funds, Santa Claus, or honor among the members of the Socialist-Democrat Wing of the once proud Democrat Party.
Will the former Southern Democrat Mentality return to the now useless Democrat Party? Let us hope so, as our disgusting RINO Political Party has just veered to the left of the philosophy of the former Southern Democrat Party.
The former proud Republican Political Party morphed into the sorry, “Republicans In Name Only” political party decades ago.
Now with “Leaders” McConnell and Boehner caving in to the Socialists/Bolsheviks, the RINO Party has set themselves adrift from the core values of what was the greatest Nation that the World had ever seen, The United States of America.
This is an excellent time for Presidential, Senate, and Representative Candidates of Honor to run for elected office.
We need some “King Arthurs” to pull the Sword of Liberty out of the Millstone of Socialism that is around the throat of every American.
Today, I heard Speaker of the House Boehner-Head defiantly proclaim “that there would be no more short-term deals.” Right, we believe that as much as we believed the GHWB pledge of: “Read my lips, NO-NEW-TAXES!”
I am reminded of kids in a school yard: “Now you quit it out! This is the last time that I am that I am going to let you take money from my piggy bank without telling Mom! I mean it! This time, I really, really mean it, you, you - - - booger-head!”
FDR’s Socialism has cruelly pierced deeper into the heart of America by every US President who has spent more per administration than the income for that same period, in other words: ALL OF THEM!
So here we are with our Socialist Safety Net, headquartered at 1600 Plantation Avenue, and a Total National Debt at more than 100 % greater than America’s Gross National Product.
Until the National Debt Clock starts running backwards, our SPENDAHOLIC Federal politicians will continue to spend every penny that they can tax us out of.
Thus, the first step is to starve the STEELY BEAST, otherwise known as The US Federal Government, is to reduce income.
The second step is for the damned Federal politicians turn to cut baseline Federal spending, year to year. (see Reply # 31, this thread.)
Yes, the con-artist politicians will go kicking and screaming into their usual hissy-fit, just like any spoiled brat would when his/her favorite toy is taken away.
Graewoulf will be smiling. How about you?
BTW, to clear up one point, in my humble, but ALWAYS correct opinion, any payment that I am forced to pay to any government at the point of their gun, is a tax. Try not paying your “fees” sometime, and then explain to all of us how we differ from the serfs/slaves on the Feudal Lands/Plantations of not so long ago.
There are but they contain no assets, just unfunded liabilities backed by the full faith and credit of the US Treasury.
Trust Funds and Measures of Federal Debt
All of the various trust funds are included in the $15 trillion national debt and held under the category of "Intragovernmental Holdings" as distinct from the publicly held debt.
In total, the federal budget has more than 200 trust funds, although most of the money is credited to fewer than a dozen of them. Among the largest trust funds are the two for Social Security (the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Disability Insurance [DI] Trust Fund) and the funds dedicated to Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) program (also known as Part A), civil service retirement, and military retirement.