After all, they’ve got the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), General Accounting Office (GAO), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Ways and Means Committees, Finance Committees, Appropriations and Budget Committees in both the Senate and House of Representatives to help them. Plus, the Joint Committee on Taxation and all sorts of outside consultants ranging from Alan Greenspeak of the privately owned Federal Reserve to Milton Friedman and other professors of economics across the country. On top of that, they’ve each got a staff of young wannabes working in their offices in Washington as well as their offices at home. If they can’t punch up the right Internet pages from the Treasury or Bureau of Public Debt for themselves, they’ve certainly got others to do it for them.

I’m simply not going to accept the idea that 534 officials in Congress, people responsible for trillions of our dollars, don’t know that the Social Security Trust Fund accounts for 18 percent of the National Debt. That’s just too much to stomach.

I was willing to consider the idea of 76 million baby-boomers looming on the horizon until I looked at the Census data. I was even willing to accept the idea of “contingency” funding until I realized that our forefathers left the federal government with the means to raise emergency billions overnight and do it with honest contracts.

There’s something very screwy when $2.268 trillion (TWO TRILLION, TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS) of the National Debt can be immediately eliminated by simply wiping bogus double payment bonds from the books. These illegal promissory notes haven’t anything at all to do with honest securities contracted on the open market.

I can’t be the only one who has heard past Presidents, former directors of the CBO, respected economists and even some of television’s talking-heads talk about how redeeming the nonmarketable nonsense bonds stuffed in mistrust funds will require “raising taxes, borrowing from the public, or doing without things in discretionary spending.”

That doesn’t mean anything more than a second payment by the very same people who contributed surpluses in the first place, their children or future taxpayers. Right from income taxes. Double taxation, plain and simple. Raise taxes, put it on the credit card to pay later with interest, or give up something discretionary like the family vacations for years to come. Items we pay income taxes for like defense, education, agricultural improvements, and so forth. Do you read it some other way???

It’s all double taxation, fraud and theft. And it’s been going on for years, but nothing like the way it has blossomed since 1983. It’s the greatest rip-off and most heinous economic swindle any government has ever pulled on its populace. Right under our noses, it makes Charles Ponzi and the Albanian pyramid builders look like pikers.

I just hope to live long enough to volunteer for the firing squad once the American people wake up. And I’m bringing my own ammunition to eliminate any chance of drawing some of those blanks, thank you.