RETIREMENT
GETTING LESS THAN YOU PAY FOR
If you listen to the men and women of Congress, you would think that the raids on Social Security funds have stopped. That Congress has passed, and the President signed, laws that prevent our representative government from stealing any of the payroll taxes every American worker contributes. Money that's taken out of every paycheck. Money sent to the government. Money that is supposed to be devoted to your retirement and health care, and nothing else. Mandatory obligations of the United States.

Well, it simply isn't true. Any politician that tries to tell you that the crime of stealing entitlement money has stopped is a flat-out liar, a cheat and a thief on top of that. Absolutely nothing has changed. The same sizable chunk of your retirement, health care and other entitlement money is being stolen every day, to the tune of about $300 million a day, and is spent elsewhere. Wherever the pirates want to spend it.

Anyone with a computer and access to the Internet can check this out. Any time they want, people can go to the government's own web sites and view the record. Sites like "Thomas" (http://thomas.loc.gov/), named after Thomas Jefferson. Go to the "Congressional Record" listings and punch "Text Search" or "Index" of the different congresses. We're currently blessed with the 107th Congress. Type in the words "Social Security trust" and read their confessions until your heart's content.

You can read thousands of comments, right from the horse's mouth, about how they are stealing your money, but you will never find any law that has been passed to put a stop to it. Many solutions have been proposed. Some, like lock-boxes, to just stop the theft somewhat. None have passed the gridlock of Congress to reach the President's desk. None whatsoever.

As if stealing retirement and health care money isn't enough, you can also follow the double taxation they're laying on you and your children. The even worse crime of forcing future taxpayers to "Pay-It-Again, Sam" with debit black hole phony trust funds that are growing day by day, interest added. Debt that our illustrious politicians and bureaucrats pile on your shoulders by depositing IOUs (really UOUs) in debit accounts every time they steal your entitlement money.

The U.S. Treasury puts out a "Monthly Treasury Statement" that you can suscribe to and lists trust funds (http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/index.html) where you will have to dig a little deeper. Find the summary tables on trusts and remember that the Social Security Trust Fund is made up of two separate trusts—the "Federal Old Age & Survivors Insurance" trust and the "Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund."

Medicare is also two separate funds, the "Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund" and the "Federal Supplemental Insurance" trust. Add them together.

You can also follow the way our wonderful government is "washing" your retirement and health care money into the national debt by paying down the honest investor side of the debt with entitlement money while running up the dishonest trust fund side.

The U.S. Treasury's Bureau of Public Debt reports this periodically at its web site (http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpdodt.htm) where honest borrowing is listed as "Debt Held by the Public" while dishonest stealing is conveniently listed as "Intragovernmental Holdings." Carrying on the pretense that this represents money loaned from one department to another. Watch one side of the debt go up, while the other side goes down. A money laundering operation, plain and simple.

Who cares if you or your children are expected to redeem all of these phony bonds someday? It's your credit card they're using. Also known as your Social Security card.

If you listen to Senator Ted Kennedy, the "children are our future." You can tell how much this millionaire socialist democrat, a prototype of the Oligarchy both in continence and action, really cares about children by looking at his voting record. A record where he has voted against every proposal to stop this illegal theft and money laundering in favor of piling it all on the shoulders of future taxpayers.

And aren't you sick and tired of this "save our children" story by now? We've heard it for several generations, and what have we got? Younger generations "dumbed down" by public schools paid mostly with local taxes while we cow-tow to the federal government for small handouts with strings attached. Behavior modification and social engineering that has led to youngsters believing in the "baby-boomer" fairy tale and that "Social Security will not be there for them" even though it turns annual profits in the hundreds of billions.

Ironically, if you really get into it, you will find that it's the democrats, the so-called "party of the people" who are leading this theft and money laundering operation. They want to take every cent they can get from anywhere they can get it and use that stolen money for their own purposes. And this is the party supported by the very people they're robbing.

Nowhere did this show more dramatically than the last elections, where the democrats pulled most of their votes from inner-city minority solid blocks of the people most dependent on Social Security and Medicare. The day that these sheep finally realize who is robbing them there will be hell to pay. If that ever happens.

How do you reach people who don't or can't read? People who get most of their news from David Letterman, Jay Leno, or talk show hosts loyal to the establishment? Even the Internet requires reading and understanding.

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