Posted on 09/08/2001 11:23:41 AM PDT by forest
Politicians are _still_ publicly talking about that mythical Social Security Trust Fund and the imaginary "lock box." Unfortunately, the media sycophants interviewing these politicians allow them to get away with this double-talk.
There is no "trust fund" because all of the Social Security tax goes immediately to the general fund and gets spent. If it were not, the federal budget would be running far in the red.
The only way that condition may be stopped is for Congress to do it's job properly and demonstrate some fiscal responsibility. That is, the federal government must take the lead of industry in these fiscal matters and schedule a 10% across the board lay-off of all personnel and a downsizing of all federal programs. Otherwise, everything they say is just another lie piled on top of the rest. This farce is making Republicans sound and act exactly like Democrats.
In last week's "save the children" news, a report out of Great Britain shows something we have been reporting for years: The energy emitted by cell phones does harm to the human brain.(1) A Swedish scientist found that people who used mobile phones for two hours a day in the 1980s and early 1990s have a "significantly raised" risk of developing a brain tumor.
Of course! From the time police cars first started using two-way radios, medical practitioners have noticed all sorts of problems caused by the radio frequency energy emitted when the head of the user is not properly shielded. This action is significantly worse for the developing brains of children and we look for a wide range of problems to be reported within the next couple years.
In another interesting matter, environmental whackos were taken aback by a statement released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the American Geophysical Union and Boston University last week. It seems that the eco-whackos were wrong and we were correct. A little extra CO2 in the atmosphere can be quite beneficial to humans and other mammals roaming this Earth. That's because plants will prosper from the availability of more CO2 and hence, grow more food for the rest of us.
According to NASA(2), Earth's northern hemisphere is a somewhat greener place than it was 20 years ago. Some areas now have denser vegetation and a longer growing season. In the areas above 40 degrees north latitude -- which includes New York City, Madrid and Beijing -- satellite data show plants have been growing more vigorously since 1981. Which means, as we reported numerous times, more crops will grow.
The United Nations was also up to its usual silliness last week. They scheduled a conference on racism -- in Africa, where they still hack each other to death on a regular basis, make war against white people and sell their daughters into prostitution.
No matter, the communist and socialist leaders of dictatorial African nations found it advantageous to badger European and U.S. representatives about us paying them reparations for the "damage done" by slavery. Not one word, though, about those in Africa still capturing and selling slaves. Convenient omission, there.
Closer to home, Democrat Party poster boy Rep. Gary Condit's father says the devil is to blame for his son's problems.(3) "Satan had a big-time role in this," says Adrian Condit, who is a clergyman.
Well . . . let's see here . . . Gary Condit is into homosexual sex, bisexual sex, group sex, bondage and discipline, leather and latex, and, apparently, some very rough stuff mixed in. Among other things, he demands to be dominated to be satisfied.
Not being a minister, I can not say how that may equate to "Satan," per se. We do, however, find Gary Condit to be a rather perverted boy who has absolutely no business holding any position of honor in government.
One problem is, many in Congress will balk at throwing Condit out of office. He might talk, if they do. The key term stated above that pertains to that was "group sex." Condit got caught. The others are not yet exposed. Watch for more of that to come out in the next couple weeks. It will be interesting to learn some of the extracurricular activities of lawmakers while they are in Washington.
Last but not least, Mexican President Vicente Fox came calling at the White House last week. Vinnie the Fox, of course, wants President Bush to open the borders between the U.S. and Mexico so that all Mexicans who wish may come here to work, own property and vote for those socialists who wish to work to dismantle our republican form of government.
Vinnie the Fox has already instituted programs in Mexico to teach his people how to better illegally invade the United States. Yet, we're discussing more immigration with him? Why? He is encouraging his people to violate our laws. This is stupid!
What the federal government should be doing is rounding up a few million illegal aliens and shipping them back to wherever they are from. They dislike our culture, refuse to learn our language and overtax our welfare, medical and education systems. Which means, it is they who have become the "Ugly Americans" they once called us -- and for all the very same reasons.
According to a recent Gallup Poll -- no conservatives there -- only 6% of the American people(4) are in favor of amnesty for the illegal aliens. Gallup found that only 14% of Americans think that immigration to the United States should be increased, while 41% think that it should be decreased.
1. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/science/story.jsp?story=92389
3. http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/3676.htm
One problem is, many in Congress will balk at throwing Condit out of office. He might talk, if they do. The key term stated above that pertains to that was "group sex." Condit got caught. The others are not yet exposed. Watch for more of that to come out in the next couple weeks. It will be interesting to learn some of the extracurricular activities of lawmakers while they are in Washington.
All gov't debt, e.g., T-bills, savings bonds, etc., is mythical in the sense that there's nothing backing it up. It's just a promise to pay in the future.
And they pay off in mythical Federal Reserve notes. Luckily enough people believe so you can exchange them for goods and services.
No matter WHAT a person earns, a percentage of his earnings go to SS. If SS is the same as general funds, then the SS deductions from that worker's paycheck are, too, income tax!
And yet most of these low-earning, tax-paying citizens -- the ones who need tax relief the most -- recieve no benefit at all from the Bush tax cut, while the wealthy, who pay a much lower percentage of their earnings into SS, get huge tax benefits.
That's fair, right?
And social security benefits will be reurned to low income earners who have paid in on retirement at a greater percentage, compared to their earnings,
than what will be paid back to the wealthy compared to their earnings.
BTW, $300-$600 received in the tax releif check, by ratio is a much larger percentage to the lower income than the wealthy.
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