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Title: Captain Bullshit
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Published: Mar 6, 2011
Author: Me
Post Date: 2011-03-06 09:36:51 by CZ82
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Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming, Co-Chair of Obama's deficit commission, calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security" to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. August, 2010. Here's a response in a letter from a unknown fellow in Montana... I think he is a little ticked off ! He also tells it like it is ! "Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight... 1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for FIFTY YEARS. 2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63). 3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero ambition losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would have made Bernie Madoff proud. 4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and your ilk pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age 67. NOW, you and your shill commission is proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN. 5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now you morons propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because you idiots mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal money from Medicare to pay the bills. 6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you incompetent bastards spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" on your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU. 1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career? 2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers? 3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance? 4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or, as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies? It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators who are "greedy". It is you and they who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes. That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America > for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it. And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch."
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#1. To: CZ82, capitalist eric (#0)
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That's completely wrong. There was never any interest bearing account. Social Security has always been a pay as you go system. Any notion of an "account" is and has always been a mere book keeping fiction. Here are the facts: When Social Security started the retirement age was 65. Life expectancy for men was 59. It was 62 for women. So, most people never collected Social Security. They few who did, didn't collect it for long. At that time, there were 40 people working for every retiree who was collecting. Today, the retirement age is still 65, but life expectancy is 75 for men and 80 for women. There are only 3 people working for every retiree. This is simple math. The system is unsustainable. It will bankrupt the country by 2020 if nothing is done. Then we will see old folks sleeping on the streets. So, we can sit here in denial or we can do something about it. The first thing we have to do is tell the truth, which is: the politicians have been lying for decades. There are no interest bearing accounts and there never were. Social Security is not a trust fund and it never was. Social Security has always been a pay as you go system that spent its tax revenue as soon as it was received. It's a welfare system for the elderly. That's it.
By the way, I've been paying Social Security taxes since I was 13. I am 51 now. I don't expect to see dime from the system.
I'm 44, been paying in since I was 13. I have the same view- that it'll be long dead, by the time I reach 67 (or whatever age they set it at)...
Socialist ass-hats think "There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more." And yes, that IS from LF's answer to Ben Bernanke, go65, leading disfunctional and delusional socialist of the forum. "You want me to kill THE ENEMIES of Jappos, I'll kill THE ENEMIES of Jappos, Rebs, or Sioux, or Cheyenne... For 500 bucks a month I'll kill whoever you want. But keep one thing in mind: I'd happily kill you for free." Algren, "The Last Samurai" My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#2. To: CZ82 (#0)
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"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#3. To: jwpegler (#2)
By the way, I've been paying Social Security taxes since I was 13. I am 51 now. I don't expect to see dime from the system.
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