There’s no money in the box, and the government can’t just print lots of additional dollar bills because that causes inflation. Double the amount of dollars in circulation without increasing their value (increased productivity), and each dollar will be worth fifty cents in purchasing power. A car that last year cost you ten grand will this year cost you twenty grand...
Now that this fella has figured out the Social Security System, he now needs to spend a great deal of time on Fort Knox and the Federal Reserve System hoax foisted upon us by the Repbulcians at the turn of the last century...
So what about the solution??? Anyone have a solution??? I don't...But I know one thing that would help...Move our manufacturing base back to the U.S...Bring our tax base back...Give us something to work with...
Bottom line: the average recipient is getting about TEN times what the average SS recipient is. You won't see that story on the evening news.
I have to say I'm shocked to see it coming from an Oregon newpaper!
Both major political parties perpetuate The Big Lie regarding Social Security. The Big Lie has existed since Social Security's inception. The debate over "privatization" is only the latest version of The Big Lie.
The Big Lie is that Social Security is some kind of retirement savings plan.
It is NOT.
Social Security is a socialist income redistribution scheme, nothing else.
Those who are working are taxed to provide a "safety net" for those who are less fortunate.
Originally, this meant retirees and surviving dependents.
Congress has, of course, complicated it far beyond this over the last 65 years.
But one fact remains: it is NOT a "savings plan", it is an income redistribution scheme.
A major facet of The Big Lie is that "we have to do something so that Social Security remains solvent in the future.
Poppycock!
In today's age of modern computerization, the computation for operating an income redistribution scheme that remains perpetually solvent is quite simple:
The only change necessary to the current system is that monthly payments to eligible recipients would be a variable amount, not fixed.
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO NEED FOR A MULTI-TRILLION DOLLAR "TRUST" FUND!!!
Congress should NEVER have been permitted to confiscate so much money from the American People in the name of The Big Lie. This fund is nothing but a slush fund that Congress raids to pay for other government expenditures. If private sector employers did the same thing with their companies' pension funds, they'd be placed in prison. The "privatization" plan proposed by Bush is merely an attempt by Wall Street brokerage firms and financial institutions to get in on the scam: grab a portion of a constant revenue stream (guaranteed by taxation) from which they can skim their commissions.
Daschle's "concern" over the Social Security system is a lie.
Bush's plan to Enronize the system is worse.
The American People need to wake up and put these liars and thieves in prison.
The system has been against the working class since a central bank got put in charge of our economy , AGAIN.........
That was in 1913!
The Colonists put up with the taxes that Englands central bankers forced on them , to pay the usury the bankers demanded.
But when the bankers wanted to take their guns it was too much.
America was prosperous in the beginning , there was plenty of Colonial Script in circulation so that businesses could grow and people had jobs.
The central bankers heard about America's prosperity when Benjamin Franklin was talking about America's condition during a visit to England. The bankers got the king to make Colonial Script illegal , putting their system in control of America.
A year later people were jobless and in the streets.
This happens because when You give someone who wants everything You have , control over the medium that enables You to pay your bills , they dry up that medium , You can't make the payments and THEY take Your property.
That was what our Forefathers tried to protect us from by giving ONLY Congress control of our economy.
In 1913 the opposition to the "federal reserve act" was tricked into going home to their families for Christmas on December 23rd. The following day with German bankster Paul Warburg's help the federal reserve act was past. Handing our economy over to international banksters and dooming us to lose everything we believe we have been working for.
The trick is , You cannot pay off the "national debt" and the central bank's system is designed that way. Their imposed debt multiplies to the point that it cannot be paid back ( called a depression ) and the banksters move in for the kill.
They explain it away as business cycles , but history proves different. Click here for more on central banks
The easiest way I know to explain this is , the central bank assumes control of your money through a monopoly called the "federal reserve" a privately owned central bank and NOT part of Your government. In order to exist , our government borrows (example) 100,000 federal reserve notes ( notes of debt , read it on your "money" ) at 10% usury. Things run fine , but then the time comes to pay back back the "debt" . 110,000 federal reserve notes are due , but only 100,000 ever existed , that means our government (us) has to borrow more debt to pay off the debt , which means asking the banksters who own the federal reserve for more "notes" representing more "debt". Which can never be paid off , but only multiplied.
Balancing the budget is an impossibility and every president since Wilson has lied to the American people.
"The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. I am an enemy to all banks , discounting bills or notes for anything but coin. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency , first by inflation and then by deflation , the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
Thomas Jefferson.
Jefferson wasn't a profit , he knew how people were controlled in Europe. Something "We" have forgotten.
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions , begun at a distinguished period and persued unalterably through every change of ministers ( administrations ) , too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery."
Thomas Jefferson
People You need to get past believing that one Party is better than the other or that a mix of Party's is safe.
On February 1 , 1992 , president George Herbert Walker Bush stated : " My vision of a New World Order forsees the UN with a revitalized peacekeeping function. It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN charter to which we henceforth pledge our allegiance."
James Paul Warburg ( son of Paul Moritz Warburg , chief architect of the Federal Reserve Act ) , boasted confidently on February 17 , 1950 before the U.S. Senate : "We shall have World government , whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World government will be achieved by conquest or consent."
I won't fall for their lies or consent to being their slave.
I don't know any other way to stand with America's Patriots / Veterans and offer our children what , "We" have taken for granted............