I'm down with the repeal, so long as I can get my money back. 35 years worth, I'll forgive the interest. I'm that kinda guy
On Nov 4, 12:45 pm, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Don t Save Social Securityby Jacob G. Hornberger > Thursday, November 4, 2010 > There s a website entitledSave Our Social Security. It issues the following > scary, sinister, and ominous warning: > Powerful forces are gathering. They have prestige and wealth but they want > more, and they want to take it from you. Their plan is to trick you into > believing that Social Security is going broke. They say that the only cure is > for you to give up what you ve earned after years of hard work. They disguise > their greed as concern: concern for the nation, concern for the future, > concern for you. Don t be fooled. They care only for themselves. They have > plenty but they want more and if it makes you poor, too bad. These liars > could do honest work but tricking you into surrendering your future is > easier. Will Social Security be there when you need it? Not unless you fight > for it. > All that is ridiculous! > For one thing, Social Security can always be there. After all, won t there > always be young people who are working to make a living? Isn t that where the > money comes from? > So what s the problem? All that people in their 60s and above have to do is > have the government take more money from young people and redistribute it to > the seniors. How can a system go broke when it depends entirely on taking > money from working people? > Oh, you say that the money collected from young people might not be enough to > fund the retirement lifestyle that the elderly would like to have? Well, then > just impose higher taxes on young people. Just take more of their income from > them. > What s the problem? > Oh, you say that the number of young people just isn t large enough to fund > the senior s preferred retirement lifestyle? Then, just collect a bigger > portion of their income. If necessary, go all the way up 95 percent taxes on > their income. > What s the problem? > Oh, you say that working people might not like going home with only 5 percent > of their income? Who cares what they don t like? They re just being greedy > and hateful. They only care for themselves. They have plenty and they just > want more. Yeah, your children, and their friends, and their generations are > just a bunch of no-good liars who are trying to trick you into surrendering > your nice Social Security payments. > All too many Americans simply do not wish to see the reality of Social > Security. They ve lived all their lives under myths, illusions, and > delusions, mostly self-imposed. And many of them get furious when you > confront them with reality. It s easier to continue living under the myths, > illusions, and delusions. > Reality: There is no Social Security fund. There never has been a fund. There > never will be a fund. From the very beginning, Social Security has been just > another socialistic welfare program, no different from food stamps or > agricultural subsidies. > Reality: The government is not like a private business. It does not create > wealth. It is also not a fountain of wealth. It does not have its own money. > The only way it gets its money is by taking it away from people in the > private sector. > Reality: Social Security is a straight, out-and-out, socialistic program. It > s not a coincidence that the Social Security administration has a bust of > Otto von Bismarckon its website. He was known as the Iron Chancellor of > Germany. He got the idea of Social Security from German socialists and then > introduced it into Germany s paternalistic, welfare-state way of life. > Reality: Social Security program is one of major factors that are heading > America toward bankruptcy. > Reality: Young people are already having a terribly difficult time starting > out in life, including buying a home and raising a family. Why in the world > would any senior citizen desire to make life more difficult for young people, > including their children and grandchildren and their friends by continuing to > impose an enormous Social Security tax burden on them? > Seniors have the opportunity to do the right thing before they pass from this > life. They have the opportunity to call for the repeal, not the saving, of > Social Security. Many seniors don t need the money anyway. Some will have to > continue working, which isn t necessarily a bad thing. In fact, imagine the > economic prosperity and job creation that would result from ending the > enormous Social Security tax burden. Others will have to depend on their > children or others for help. > What s wrong with all that? Have Americans lost all their faith in the > workings of a free society? > America s experiment with socialism (as well as its experiment with military > empire) has failed. America s senior citizens should do the right thing and > demand the repeal, not the reform, of Social Security. Repealing Social > Security, the crown jewel of America s welfare state, would help lead America > out of its statist morass and put our nation back on the road of economic > liberty, free markets, prosperity, sound money, voluntary charity, and a > constitutionally limited-government > republic.http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-11-04.asp -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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