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The posturing and maneuvering around Social
\n Security is developing into the grandest act of tawdry government
\n prestidigitation in our lifetimes, and maybe in the lifetime of the nation
\n itself.<\/p>\n
A lot of big words, catchy tag lines and complicated economic explanations
\n are flying around, but the bottom line is that someone, in the greatest
\n fiscal scam of all times, figured how to make 5 trillion dollars disappear.<\/p>\n
All the speeches and excuses and accusations cannot hide the fact that
\n one of the greatest thefts of social capital in history has taken place,
\n and the powers that be are racing around trying to hide the magnitude
\n of the theft and divert public attention from the true nature of the
\n problem. We believe their efforts are doomed to failure, and within a
\n relatively short period of time it will be obvious to even the dimmest
\n American workers
\n that
\n traitorous
\n theft of THEIR MONEY has taken place.<\/p>\n
Most American workers don’t understand trickle down economics, or deficit
\n budgeting, or the intricacies of intra-government borrowing. But they
\n are going to understand when it comes time for them to retire and they
\n are told that the tens of thousands of dollars they have contributed
\n into the Social Security system over the years isn’t there any more.<\/p>\n
The Dowbrigade, for example, has been faithfully if reluctantly handing
\n over hundreds of dollars a month now for over 30 years. How dare
\n those mealy mouthed bastards come back to us now saying "Gee, sorry,
\n not sure how it happened, but YOUR MONEY ISN’T THERE ANYMORE! But it
\n wasn’t
\n our fault, but if you’ll lend us ANOTHER SEVEN TRILLION DOLLARS we’ll
\n fix it, and make sure it doesn’t happen again."<\/p>\n
How dumb do they think we are? We know, pretty damn dumb, but NOT THAT
\n DUMB.<\/p>\n
Now, our unapologetic leadership is telling us that in 2018 (coincidentally,
\n the year the Dowbrigade hits the magic age of 65) the system will no
\n longer be taking in enough new money to pay existing contributors.
\n Duh. But that means for the last 50 years (and the next 13) they were
\n taking in MUCH more than they needed to pay current retirees. We thought
\n the whole idea of Social Security was to SAVE that excess, building up
\n a reserve so that the system would remain solvent during the demographic
\n blip represented
\n by
\n the Baby Boom generation, and get through the 15 years or so until the
\n boomers die off and the current cash flow balance gets back into the
\n black again. <\/p>\n
It’s not like they couldn’t see this coming. The whole purpose of government,
\n the motivation for its creation, the main reason human society has put
\n up with the sleazebags and psychopaths attracted to "public
\n service" since before the time of Solomon, was to save the excess during
\n the fat years in order
\n to get
\n us through
\n the lean years. The problem
\n is that for the ruling class in America today there ARE no lean years.
\n How many of these high government officials and pontificating politicians
\n do you think are going to be depending on Social Security in the upcoming
\n years? NONE, that’s how many.<\/p>\n
When the gig is up, and it won’t be long now, we foresee massive public
\n uprisings, desperate Gray Panthers in the streets, rebels of the 60’s,
\n now in their 60’s and
\n 70’s,
\n marching down Pennsylvania avenue in their walkers and wheelchairs,
\n with
\n a lot more to be pissed off about than an unjust war. Our generation
\n is not going to go gently into the night, ladies and gentlemen, selling
\n pencils and apples
\n on streetcorners
\n and
\n hoping
\n for a handout or a job bagging groceries at Win-Dixie. The government
\n has no idea what kind of a shitstorm of protest and civil disobedience
\n they are in for.<\/p>\n
Not only will administration after administration fall on the shoals
\n of this unsolved problem, we would not be surprised to see massive tax
\n strikes, destitute seniors setting themselves on fire on the White House
\n lawn, recall ballots and even retroactive impeachments and indictments
\n of every official
\n from
\n the last
\n 30 years
\n who instigated
\n or
\n acquiesced in
\n the massive fraud that stole that money from honest, hard-working Americans.
\n We expect organized and spontaneous street protests that will make the
\n Vietnam war marches look like the
\n St. Patrick
\n Day parade.<\/p>\n
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\n taken to the cleaner by a bunch of corrupt millionaires and politicians
\n who have mortgaged
\n our golden years for vacation homes in the Bahamas and Swiss bank accounts
\n that assure that their progeny will not have to worry about Social
\n Security, or anything else, for many generations to come. And the saddest
\n and most scandalous part is that the whole thing was orchestrated
\n by the one institution that most Americans still believe in – the US
\n Federal Government. But
\n not for long.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"