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/