This is a typical trick of our crafty politicians. In a blunderbuss of real issues or accomplishments, they will drop in one or two that are absolutely and ridiculously false. It makes people believe that they’ve accomplished something on a major issue which they haven’t. However, by simply saying that they’ve solved the problem leads a lot of people into believing that it’s so, when nothing could be further from the truth.

Constantly put on the back burner, buried in a plethora of trivia, or glossed over by talking heads and politicians alike, Social Security is the greatest victim of this malfeasance. All, while it’s the largest of many entitlements plundered by the pirates of Washington.

Last year, $94.4 billion was stolen from excess Social Security payments or surplus. Bringing the Social Security Trust Fund to a total $1.016 trillion or 18 percent of the National Debt. A so-called trust stuffed with promissory notes that will all have to be redeemed by the public in a slick system of double taxation. We give them money. They spend it wherever they want and give us debt in return.

Two “lock-box” bills (H.R. 1259 and 3859) did pass the House of Representatives since 1999, but they both died in the Senate. Surely, Mr. DeLay knows that they never made it through Congress or got to President Clinton’s desk where they would have been vetoed anyway.

What has been happening to Social Security excess is the greatest scam that has ever been perpetrated on the working class, along with fictions like the “baby-boomer” threat that do nothing more than make people accept raising retirement ages and other mini-scams that increase the booty.

But Social Security isn’t the only entitlement plundered. As of the end of fiscal 2000, the total of compound debt held by entitlement mistrust funds was $2.268 trillion (TWO TRILLION, TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT BILLION) all to be paid back with future income taxes from you and your children.

It’s this same massive entitlement excess that President Bush intends to use to pay down the other, honest borrowing, side of the debt over the next ten years. And no one mentions the fact that this will triple the trust fund side of the debt.

Mathematically challenged, the talking heads and establishment press let bandits like Mr. DeLay slip and slide their lies any which way they want. Haven’t you noticed that these “hard question” penetrating news people merely provide opening remarks for politicians to deliver whatever statement they want. There’s no follow-up on anything, much less recognition of a falsehood or fairy tale. How could there be? These interviewers have no background on any subject they tackle. They just follow monitors or a format that they’ve been given. Probably even pre-approved by the respondent.

All any of them ever have to do is ask how the Social Security Trust Fund ever got to be 18 percent of the National Debt. And then follow up and challenge the lies they get in response. Even Bill O’Reilly isn’t permitted to broach this subject.