STOP THEFT
		..........The pirates in government steal a good part of our Social Security, Medicare, Gas taxes and, in fact, all trust fund money, spending it elsewhere. They freely confess to this crime. Confessions that, anywhere else, would result in jail time. ..........Money that our employers and we paid to a retirement system is used for purposes such as illegal wars, bailing out bankers, graft and other pork barrel ventures; i.e., things these crooks could not otherwise afford. This theft has been going on for many years but, since 1983, has been reaching phenomenal amounts. The total stolen was $1.787 trillion at the close of fiscal 1998, one trillion seven hundred and eighty seven billion, more than 32 percent of the national debt. ..........Not too long ago, these pirates claimed to be "borrowing" this money under the label of "off budget" revenue. They made it sound as though they, themselves, were somehow going to pay it back. While you still occasionally hear this from some of them, nothing could be further from the truth. They couldn't pay it back themselves if they were all John D. Rockefeller clones. ..........Plundering trust funds by stealing this money was bad enough, but our ingenious pirates went much, much further than that. Telling us that they were depositing "IOUs" in the empty trust funds, these crafty thieves committed the gravest crime of all. They left bills behind, statements of money due, promissory notes that can only be redeemed or paid-off by the victims, the very same public they robbed, the people who owned and contributed this money in the first place. They call these promissory notes "special obligation nonmarketable Treasury bonds." Isn't that cute? They're "special obligation" all right, all on your shoulders. ..........These nonmarketable bonds are a plague on the public. They are not "IOUs"---they're UOUs. They represent double taxation, plain and simple. Every dollar a citizen puts in federal "trust" becomes another dollar that he owes, an investment with a return of minus 100 percent. You pay, they steal, and you pay again in the greatest criminal rip-off that has ever been perpetrated on the citizens of any country, the crime of the century, a deliberate con that makes amateurs like Charles Ponzi look like angels. ..........Ask yourself, ask your banker or financial advisor, or ask your congressional representative to describe "nonmarketable Treasury bonds" and, particularly, where the money comes from to pay them off. See what kind of an evasive answer you get. Under the barrage of camouflage such as "they're instruments of federal debt" or tales of the "unified budget" there is only one truthful answer---the money is drawn from the general fund Treasury. In other words, it's taken out of the annual taxes you pay, your federal government's only source of income other than legitimate borrowing by the sale of real Treasury securities on the open market; i.e., running a deficit or sustaining the debt level. ..........Every time the federal government turns to the general fund to "pay off" nonmarketable bonds, you do without something else you paid for during that particular year. You do without something in the "discretionary" spending allowance for agriculture, education, defense, or other bang-for-your-buck you were supposed to get that year. ..........And why do you do without? Because your tax money is going towards paying back money you already paid once before, money that was stolen by Congress and the Administration. ..........This is happening right now, as you read this, with the Department of Transportation's Highway Trust Fund who, in 1997, told Congress they were going to need all $23 billion in their trust fund in order to repair interstate highways. Last year, fiscal 1998, they drew down $5 billion worth of nonmarketable bonds in their trust fund. Money that you paid in over the years through excess gasoline tax, the crooks stole, and now you're paying again---double taxation, plain and simple. And you are doing without things in agriculture, education, defense, and other things you should be getting because they're taking this payback money out of the general fund taxes for the year. ..........The same thing happened in 1995 when Medicare found itself $3 billion short due to fraud by unscrupulous doctors double billing Medicare, a sort of revenge of victims. Congress got mad because it meant that $3 billion was taken away from their pork barrel plans to spend. They accused Medicare of being "in trouble," unable to meet its commitments, and they're still talking about that. Can you believe it? An organization that has taken in $206 billion in excess money, money the pirates stole, is supposed to be "in trouble." ..........The only major trouble that has ever faced Social Security or Medicare comes from the federal government itself. It comes from the thieves who now confess to stealing the cash that should have been working for us. ..........How long are you going to take this crap??? What are you going to do if and when Social Security needs to draw on the more than $800 billion it is currently holding in nonmarketable double taxation bonds? Do you realize that this bill annually increases by multiples now in the hundreds of billions? Where do you think their so called "surplus" comes from anyway? Is this what you want to leave your children? ..........Think about this when you're forced to spend the next year listening to the candidates for office and their loyal pundits or publicity agents. Do you find any of them with a solution? How about just simple recognition of the problem?