My father tells me that in the 60's it was said there was so much money in the social security system that they needed to reduce the amount collected and might not even need anymore money. I think he said LBJ was the first to raid the social security fund and I think is was to fund Viet Nam.
Viet Nam was started according to some to help the defense contractors make more money. You know they guys the fund elections. We owe you one so lets pay you off with the blood of 58,000 young American soldiers.
It is all a shell game. That is why I am against a government that says what I can eat, what I can drive, how much gas should cost, and will deny me health coverage because I eat too many cheese burgers or too much Mexican food. Who are they to tell me how to live my life beyond the basics like making murder a crime.
Get the government out of my life!
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Keith Smith
--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Daniel Stasinski <
mooooooo@avenues.org> wrote:
> From: Daniel Stasinski <mooooooo@avenues.org>
> Subject: Re: guess what....
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 7:18 PM
> > not only that, they
> routinely borrow against Social Security to fund
> > other things. -jmz
>
> Not so much borrowed, it is just pumped directly into the
> general fund
> as it arrives. There is no
> box-o-fica-money out there. The reason
> why this worked so well is that when it was started, the
> average
> person died within 18 months of retirement. There was
> supposed to be
> tons of excess money. The problem is that
> health has improved,
> people lived far longer and now take out far more than they
> ever put
> in, and the result is that current tax payers are paying
> out for the
> older people and it takes many current tax payers to pay
> for each
> individual recipient. No matter what the
> rhetoric is,
> mathematically, this is not sustainable.
>
> Daniel
>
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