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Tell The Truth About Social Security

Posted by KidzTested on Thursday, May 26, 2011 5:44:51 PM
  "Over the past 25 years, the government has gotten used to the fact that Social Security is providing free money to make the rest of the deficit look smaller," this according to Andrew Biggs, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
  While the wealthy, the youth of America and the Politicians tout the need to cut entitlements, namely Social Security they conveniently forget the fact that they borrowed billions from Social Security and never paid it back. In fact, it’s when faced with this debt to America’s elderly that all of a sudden they don’t want to pay. How can anyone dare suggest any cut’s to Social Security when it has been the goose that laid the golden egg. Time and time again the government used the surpluses in Social Security to pay its debts and now when our government once again spends more than it can afford it not only does not want to pay its debt but wants to take the money out of the mouths of those who have faithfully paid into it all their lives.
  Why oh why doesn’t the Media or Washington tell the truth about all of this? If the cookie-jar looks empty you only have to follow the trail of crumbs leading to Capitol Hill and the politicians who greedily gobbled the cookies up. While both Democrats and Republicans keep us busy watching while they point fingers at each other we are missing the bigger picture. It’s not Social Security, or Medicare either, that’s the problem it’s bigger and bigger Government.
  So how do you fix this? We can start by downsizing some of the useless bureaucracy that has been not only eating up budget dollars but giving us all a pain you know where. Let’s start with, HUD, The Bureau of Land Management, The Dept of the Interior, The Dept. of Energy and The Dept. of Education. HUD has never been anything but a waste of time, The Bureau of Land Management and Dept. of the Interior are not only mismanaged but who doesn’t think we need less of eminent domain? The Dept. of Energy and Dept. of Education because, as history shows us, the States independently  managed these better until Washington bureaucrats realized the amount of money involved. Need more, let’s cut Agricultural Subsidies that don’t ever go to the farmer but to the Agro Conglomerates that use it to fix food prices raising it and lowering it based on their own profit margin. Fire all Czars, the very idea of a Czar is unconstitutional even the name stems from empirical Russia. Declare a flat tax, no more tax exceptions, rebates, breaks, etc. just a flat tax for all with a reduction in the size of the IRS. And finally if America is not going to break its trust and obligation to the elderly raise the Social Security Tax by 1.9% and even though the current deficit runs into the Trillions we would not have to worry about Social Security for another 75 years.  
   There are definitely solutions out there that could fix a lot of the problems we have right now without taxing us out of our shoes. We only need the fortitude to not let our Politicians pit us against each other so they once again can dictate to us the terms of our existence. It is our country, bought and paid for by the work of all of our forefathers and guaranteed us by the Constitution. Let us not be fooled by those in Washington who’s only incentive is that they don’t want to give up their power over us. Let’s remind them that it is we the people, according to the Constitution, who will decide our future!! 
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The Arab League Fires the US

Posted by KidzTested on Sunday, March 20, 2011 3:50:54 PM
  The sun rises as the first rays of light touch Tripoli. Whether admitted or not, the people of Libya's capital huddle together in their homes. Gaddafi's forces rule the streets as coalition forces fire on the surrounding military infrastructure. The question is, as we rally in defense of what we ourselves have called the rebel factions - which faction do we support?
  The US government states its support of the people when all the people want is to resume their lives without fear of being shot. Multiple rebel factions, akin to aspiring warlords, have claimed dominance as Obama and his administration try to ferret out which one represents what we think will support our interests. And lets be honest, thats exactly why were there, to further what our interests are. If you dont think so please read the news of Yemen and how they have fired on their own people as well as Saudi when they firmly suppressed their day of protest and thats only part of it. I also must entreat any reader to research the history of Lebanon, once called the Paris of the Middle East and similarities that gave rise to groups like Hamas.
  We are involved in what quite frankly is a struggle that is not any of our business. While we rattle our swords in the air nobody has seen any participation of the Arab League. They have all the money yet while the west act's as their attack dogs due to fear of further oil restriction's they pontificate. I'm pointing this out as we, and our allies, circle the drain due to Trillion's of dollars of debt and face economic ruin while on the other hand the Arab nation's effectively escape unscathed. And now the Arab League is critiscizing us and saying we are going beyond the scope of action they had envisioned. The Arab League already seeing a future Lebanon in Libya is distancing themselves from this miltary operation.
  Did anybody bother to ask the American people what they thought about involving our forces in a Third War in the Middle East, did anybody think what this will really mean to oil prices in the US? Or did the political pollsters just fashion their questions to get a supportive response? Should we support freedom, should we support democracy, can we allow genocide? How about asking us if we think the surrounding, very very  wealthy, Arab countries should be in charge of policing their neighbors? They do have the money, they have no finacial issues, and they do have the miltary if they joined together in what they call the Arab League. So why are we spending Billion's a day, yes Billion's, when we are so in debt we can't even pay attention.
  Personally I'm beginning to think that this is a very expensive effort on the behalf of our government to distract us from what is really going on right here in our own country. Instead focusing on cleaning up our own government and helping our friends in Japan we are squandering money we dont have. Additional food for thought would be the lack of involvement of China and Russia as we continue to borrow money from them to fight a war for someone else, I wonder who thought that was a good idea?
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