The Truth About Social Security

The truth about social security is you and I got snookered. Madoff could not have planned it better. The planners sold the scheme to the American people on the idea that the money would be invested and untouched in a so-called “lock box.” When we retired, we would reap the benefits according to what we paid in. It sounded fair. But the whole thing died on the day the government voted the money into the general treasury. Died, dead, gone.

You may be receiving benefits at the present time, but remember, Madoff paid his early investors a good return out of the money his new investors were throwing at him. He did this to make the scheme look good—to entice those new investors into coughing up the big bucks. So you are living off the backs of your children and grandchildren. Do you feel good about that?

That is the reality. There is no money for you other than what you can steal from your children and grandchildren (or honestly, what the government can steal from then on your behalf). I’m 56. There is and will be no money for me, either, other than what the government can steal and put my kids in the poor house before my age. And just to be clear, I have no other pension and never made great gobs of money. I will need help when I reach retirement, only the money isn’t there!

No, no no! Don’t say you are just getting back what you invested. That is not true. You did not invest anything, despite what you were told. To be blunt: You were lied to, and so was I. Social security taxes are just that—another tax, another revenue stream for the government to spend any way they see fit. Social security taxes have nothing to do with an investment on your part. You just got TAXED, and so did I. You got lied to. I got lied to. There is no social security money, and there should be no social security benefits. Why? Because we are ruining and bankrupting our children and grandchildren by insisting on our “entitlement.”

“But I paid into the system all those years. I only want my investment. I only want what I am entitled to. That is only fair…”

Wrong, wrong, wrong! There is no system. You and I were merely taxed under a government version of the Madoff pyramid scheme. You and I got snookered. You and I sincerely should not be getting any money because there isn’t any money available to get. We may technically be owed the money, but you can’t sue a man who is broke! Don’t you get it? What? Do you think there is a secret stash of money in Washington somewhere? There isn’t any social security money. No matter how much you think you deserve it, no money means there should be no benefits either. After all who is paying for those benefits? The future…

The only way you or I can be paid our “social security benefits” is to bankrupt the future and ruin our children’s lives. You may not care about the future or our children and grandchildren, but I do. The only decent thing to do is stop social security now. Just stop it. Stop lying about investment and returns and retirement funds. And stop paying it out. Just call it the tax that the government turned it into and be done with it!

You might also want to dig up the graves of those congressmen and senators who voted the social security money out of the “lock box” and into the general fund in the first place and shoot them, hang them or fry them. That might make you feel better. But as for benefits, there are none so we should just stop this pyramid before it destroys our future and our nation. Just stop. It was all a lie. Accept that truth and move on.

Now, can the government help people set up a retirement fund that will be there for their old age? Yes, by all means, but only if the government keeps their filthy stinking hands off of it. Once they get hold of your money, you know you will never see it again. Like now, they are paying you by stealing out of your children’s pockets, by making your grandchildren “depression poor.” Do you feel good about that? I don’t. Just stop the payments, now! Find another way to help those who need help, but stop the payments now before it is too late.

And as for Medicare, the same goes for you, too!


-MichaelThe Fiction Side: The Storyteller http://mgkizzia.wordpress.com/ The Non-Fiction Side: Word & Spirit http://michaelkizzia.wordpress.com/

For Government Workers Everywhere:

A great deal has been said on the right that the government is getting too big—poking its nose into every nook and cranny of individual lives and making decisions best left to the people.

The counter from the left has been that the government is us—that it is only made up of people and so it is people making these decisions after all.

Actually, the former is a matter of opinion as to what is too big. (Too big to fail)? The latter is not at all correct. No government is people. Government is (hopefully) based on law, but in practical action it is applied rules and regulations. It is only people in so far as it is people “doing their job,” which is applying the rules and regulations.

Auschwitz and Buchenwald were staffed by government people doing their job. That was the chief excuse at Nuremburg after the war. “I was just doing my job.” It wasn’t a good defense.

Rules and regulations, applied. That is what government is. And some will always say government is too big, though I suppose it could be a bit smaller. Still, as long as it is as big as it is, allow me to make this suggestion:

For anyone working in any sort of bureaucratic, governmental work, my suggestion is: WORK PERSONALLY… I mean, take it personally.

DMV, IRS, EPA, etc., before you decide anything, adjudicate anything, approve or disapprove anything ask what if this was me? What if this was my grandparents, parents, children, home, job in the balance? If I do this (or don’t do this) what if it was my life at stake here? How would I want someone to decide if it was me?

I am not advocating breaking the law, just finding a human way around the rules and regulations for the sake of humanity.

WORK PERSONALLY. Make it personal. Take it personal. Do nothing without consideration.

True, ideologues on the left will be unhappy when, for example, their environmental regulations can no longer ruin human lives or destroy jobs or keep people from using the bountiful resources of this great land or the IRS stops fining people who are barely making ends meet as it is.

And, people on the right will no doubt still think government has gotten too big and intrusive.

But whether you are on the left or the right, think of this: When the next Nuremburg comes, “I was just doing my job” won’t be an acceptable excuse then, either.


-MichaelThe Fiction Side: The Storyteller http://mgkizzia.wordpress.com/ The Non-Fiction Side: Word & Spirit http://michaelkizzia.wordpress.com/