When they've got the Fourth Estate in their back pocket, they can do almost anything they want, even start wars to create confusion and throw everyone off track. But before they go that far, it’s a lot easier to use blunderbuss.

What's blunderbuss, you say? Let me tell you a little story. Long ago, while man was still a hunter and food provider, butchers and merchants would drag out this huge sort of shotgun. Flared like a megaphone at the end of the barrel, this flint and black powder contraption could be loaded with almost anything. Nuts, bolts, broken glass, nails, screws, bearings, rocks and pebbles, it all went down the barrel.

They would set this gun on a tripod at places like Horicon Marsh in Wisconsin, a place where ducks and geese came in by the thousands certain seasons of the year. When this gun was fired into the population, the prey didn't know which way to turn. There were so many missiles in the air, the ducks and geese were knocked down by the hundreds. It wasn't sport, it was slaughter.

That's what we've got today folks. When it comes to Social Security reform, we've got the powers in Washington dragging out their blunderbuss. Don't take to the air! Don't succumb to the missiles being thrown out. Most of them are as senseless as broken glass and just as dangerous. They are meant to kill.

In this case, the missiles are meant to kill any ideas of change. So sit back, hold on to your sensibilities, stay on firm ground and enjoy the show. Deadly as things may seem, it's still just a show, a grand theatrical event. Take a lesson from the hunters, what matters is who goes home with the bacon.

We've got performers asking us to abandon our own language, to believe that words like "insurance" and "entitlement" don't really mean what they're supposed to mean. That there's no trust in "'trust fund." While the parties bump into one another and abandon their basic tenets. The Republicans are trying to help the poor while the Democrats have taken the "d" out of black powder and seem to be self-destructing by picketing reform that would return the money to their supporters. No matter, it's all part of the act.

In the end, there will be no end. The show will drag on forever while the gate yields about $300 million a day for the cast and their puppeteers to use paying off their mortgage. Saving themselves six to seven cents in accrued interest with every one of our dollars they steal. Producers who produce nothing but behavioral laws, restrictions, regulations and pretense. Let them regulate what's proper to regulate.

We already know the answer. Stop stealing the money. How hard is that? Rescind the tax or use it properly. Either stop collecting the excess/surplus or put it to use for what it was intended. The latter would have to be real trust funds in the private sector with the power to invest anywhere except in double taxation. Anything except the current rip-off of investing in U.S. Treasury securities redeemable only by the beneficiaries, the people who put up the cash in the first place. The Pay-It-Again, Sam scam.

Government should not be a merchant or in the investment business and politicians can't be trusted with money anyway. But they can sure as hell turn it over to trustees in the private sector that are not above the law and can be held accountable.

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