If you try to tell me that you would raise a stink, complain to management, demand an accounting and insist on getting your money back—I’m not going to believe you. Why? Because that’s exactly what happens to the extra Social Security, Medicare and other “surplus” entitlement money that you put into the Washington machine, only getting an election promise of four cents back on the dollar. And you don’t make a peep.

You don’t complain when the political pirates plunder your payments for pork-barrel spending. You don’t demand an accounting, even when they tell you that there’s nothing of value in trust funds. And you certainly do not insist on getting your money back. Even when there’s thousands of your dollars involved, billions and trillions in total. You just sit there and take it.

Unlike the car wash, you think that your faithful government must need the pilfered money, be putting it to some good use, or that it’s worth a couple of bucks just to keep them off your back. To keep the car wash manager from calling the police if you make a fuss.

What’s really going to happen is that these crafty con artists are going to sock it to you again. They’ve made certain you’re going to put another dollar into the machine because they put chits or markers in a black hole debit account that they conveniently label as a “trust fund.” You or your children will, someday, be forced to redeem these promissory notes called nonmarketable bonds. You will do it by having your income taxes raised, paying back new creditors who then loan the government more money, or by doing without something you might otherwise have received or anticipated for your income tax money, the other big deduction from your paycheck.

In the Analytical Perspectives section of his Fiscal 2000 Budget, here’s the way William Jefferson Clinton put it: “Trust fund bonds are not real economic assets that can be drawn down in the future to fund benefits. Instead, they are claims on the Treasury that, when redeemed, will have to be financed by raising taxes, borrowing from the public, or reducing benefits or other expenditures.”

Putting more of these bogus bond markers in the Social Security Trust Fund is also what Mr. Clinton calls “strengthening” Social Security. They even throw more of these bogus notes in every year, calling it “interest” that you gain. More debt for you and your children. It just gets bigger and bigger. And it was because your money was stolen in the first place.

The Social Security Trust Fund now stands at $1.016 trillion (one trillion, sixteen billion). All debt for you and your children.

It’s exactly the same as robbing your child’s piggy bank and leaving a note behind. A note that says your child must replace the money, with interest, and that you can and will enforce it. It’s double taxation, plain and simple. What I call the “Pay-It-Again, Sam” plan.

Brazen about it

How many times have you heard all of this? I’ve been telling you for at least two years. Now, the crooks themselves come right out and tell you about it. They confess to the crime. Why should they worry? They know that you won’t do anything about it.

How many times have you heard them talk about the “Unified Budget” or the “non-Social Security” budget, “on-budget” or “off-budget” money? What do you think they’re talking about?

The younger generations, products of federal and union educational interference with local schools, are too uneducated and illiterate to figure it out. They believe that an organization generating a $94.7 billion profit (surplus) last year is going broke and won’t be there for them.

The rest of the nation believes in a fictitious baby-boomer ghost generation fable looming on the horizon and about to upset the apple cart. Fear stories generated to make people accept change, sacrifice, and be willing to pay more. Outright lies.

Under the banner of “fixing” Social Security, the pirates have already raised retirement age and the income limit on FICA taxes. More booty for them. And the loyal media is promoting the idea that you can work until you die. All while the only problem Social Security faces is the Beltway Bandits of government themselves.

With entire industries living off the great white underbelly of the Washington war (defense) machine. Owners of the news/entertainment industry ready to back them up on any fiction they decide to promote. And two million federal employees paid hush money in the form of a Thrift Savings stock investment plan and other perks for themselves. Why should the Beltway Bandits worry?

Do you really believe that George W. Bush is going to do anything different? Something other than what’s gone on since 1983 and all through his father’s era? You don’t see anyone asking why 52 percent of the eligible voters didn’t even bother to go to the polls in the last election, do you? A typical reaction. When disgusted and fed up, stick your head in the sand. Or wait for someone like Jesse Ventura to come along.

Entitlements like Social Security, Medicare and gas taxes are not a rich man’s tax. They’re taxes on the average working man. Many, some say 60 percent, of the working stiffs in this country pay more in FICA taxes than they do in income taxes.

And you are going to pay these entitlement taxes again, a second time. You or your children will pay the same amount you already paid once, and the government “borrowed,” if and when the entitlement trust fund must be cashed-in, with annual interest added to the bill. Isn’t that nice?

Are you waiting for Dan Rather, Stone Phillips or Cokie Roberts to tell you about this? Lots of luck. Better check which side of the bread is buttered for them. You’ve got a better chance of hearing it from Elsa Klensch or one of Regretta Van Susteren’s silent stooges.

I’m sorry. I know that my diatribe probably ticks you off. But I’m 69 years old next month and nothing that happens is going to change anything for me. I tire, and the ball is in your court.

Don’t you think it’s about time you started wondering about the definition of a slave mentality? Or do you find some comfort in being a victim?

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