If Al Gore really wanted to help American families, he’d stop stealing their excess Social Security and Medicare payments. As a major part of the Clinton Administration, he’s due to take more than $80 billion from Social Security this year, and another $20 billion or so from Medicare. How many prescription drugs for the elderly would that money have bought?
If the Democrats were serious about anything but greed and spending, they would not have blocked two “lock-box” bills that are stuck forever in the Senate. Bills that would have made Social Security and Medicare surpluses unavailable to their other areas of spending. One of these bills passed the House of Representatives by a 416-to-12 vote in May of 1999. The other passed the House by a vote of 422-to-2 in June of this year. Both bills are as dead as door nails—killed by Senate Democrats who support the Clinton/Gore plan to pay down the national debt with your Social Security money.
If the government could not steal your Social Security and Medicare money then they would have to cut back on pork-barrel spending, favors to contributors, lobbyists and international bankers, the new world odor and other waste spending. Heavens, we wouldn’t want that, would we? It they couldn’t deliver favors, where would politicians get the money to run around the country annoying us every election?
If the Republicans had not, in 1995, used the debt ceiling of $4.9 trillion to insist on a balanced budget, we would not be in this position. Deficits would still be going on. They shut down the government arguing about when a balanced budget would happen. And the final 1997 Balanced Budget Act was possible only by hiding Social Security and Medicare theft under the “unified budget” umbrella disguise. It’s still 2002 before any chance of a real “surplus” from income and corporation taxes—the honest budget accounting method.
If the Justice Department were truly on top of money laundering practices it would be prosecuting Bill Clinton and Al Gore for their method of paying down one part of the national debt with your entitlement money while raising the other part with payback obligations to the same entitlements. Paying down the “Public” side of the national debt by stealing entitlement money only moves the debt to the trust fund credit card. It moves debt from one credit card to another. Taxpayers are responsible for paying off both cards. They are both cards your government has taken out in your name.
If the public truly understood how they are being robbed, they would be up in arms and talking revolution. At the very least, they would be trying to get rid of all of today’s politicians—with few, if any, exceptions. Just the thought of it is enough to make Washington’s current cults make widespread efforts to take guns out of the hands of the people, increase police and defense spending, and practice urban military maneuvers.
If George W. had the nerve, he would be challenging Al Gore on all of these points. His father could tell him enough about inside practices in Washington to make the charts Ross Perot showed us in 1992 look like kindergarten books. But George W. doesn’t want to be confrontational, does he? Or is it that he wants the same slush funds for himself if elected? When his own Texans complained about federal night military practice raids in his state, George’s response was that “it’s none of my business what the military does.”
If people paid attention to the old adages like “you’re judged by the company you keep” or “the apple never falls far from the tree” or “like father, like son” then we probably wouldn’t vote for either candidate. But who else is there?
If Jesse Ventura had decided to run for the presidency this year, he would have been a shoe-in. And we wouldn’t be hearing the junk we’re hearing now about issues that aren’t issues or promises that will never be kept. But it’s going to take more than a one man change in Washington, isn’t it? More than a single challenge to business as usual.