Good Morning Fellow Serfs, it is time
to listen to Mother Revolutionary about something that affects all of
you donors to the government till or as they put it: tax payers.
Just as Congress is about to pass a
budget which no one with a brain likes, they are deciding whether to
get your children blown up in Syria. Best pay attention to this
budget because when your darlings get back from the latest
religious/oil war, they will get hit with the budget and the task of
finding a non-existent job. When they find that fast food job, put
their little uniforms on and work with no benefits, they will get a
check and that will be when they discover the great god, Social
Security, has just taken a huge chunk of the change they worked for
all week.
The plan that is called a compromise
and just happens to be what the GOP has wanted for 5 years is tying
the amount of money your elderly relatives and friends get every
month to the Cost of Living. This affects you because if they are
relatives, guess who is going to have to make up the difference or
have mom and dad and grandma and grandpa living with them? The answer
is YOU, so just remember how much you wanted out of the house and
whether you are going to like changing adult cotton diapers and
washing them because the disposable ones cost about 50.00 a
box....more if they are for someone weighing over 120 pounds.
Now that I have you riveted attention,
let me ask you a few questions no one wants you to ask. Do you know
how the cost of living is figured? Do you know who figures the cost
of living?
You really ought to know those answers
before you put your faith in the cost of living. You see, there is no
carved in stone way of figuring the cost of living. It is sort of
like getting dressed in the morning. You yank something out of the
closet say the cost of a mortgage payment and then decide what goes
with it like bread and water which are cheap that week or you could
grab oats and milk which are expensive. Now none of that is relevant
to grandma because she rents an apartment and eats cereal bars for
breakfast...Oops!
So, who really decides what is yanked
out of the closet, you or the shirt closest to the door? Who really
decides how the cost of living is figured? How easy is it to
manipulate? The answer to both questions is simply manipulate who
decides how it is figured, manipulate the figures of the cost of
things and you control the cost of living. In other words, have
someone control what clothes are in the closet and they control what
you wear that day or in very real terms, whether you eat, have a roof
over your head and can pay for your medication that year.
Now, let's return to the big chunk of
change your kids just noticed is missing from their pay check. Social
Security is NOT A TAX. Everyone wants you to believe it is a TAX
because it is removed from your paycheck and you don't question what
is done with TAXES. You really should, but Social Security is NOT A
TAX. It IS a FUND, an account, that you pay into and at a certain
age, withdraw those funds.
That big chunk of change isn't grabbed
by some bureaucrat and carried over to a room somewhere, thrown in
and the door slammed shut. At the very least, it should be in a bank
account earning some interest. It should NOT be a pool for someone in
government play (the important word here is PLAY) the Stock Market.
That is what privatizing Social Security is; handing your money out
of your paycheck to someone to play the Stock Market with....so now
not only has Congress decided someone is going to decide how much of
the money you paid into Social Security is returned to you based on a
figure they control but they have also given this entire fund to the
friends to place bets on whether stocks will go up or down and you
get....well, you can describe that in hardware terms: screwed.
So, yes there is a good chance we may
get our asses blown up in Syria, enter into another holy/oil war that
will cost us a fortune, but while we are deciding what survival items
to buy, do we go with the plain silver duct tape or the pink hearts
one, Congress is going to rob you blind if you don't stop them and
all in the name of getting rid of that nasty Sequester they created
so they can keep Syria from blowing you up. Convenient? You bet it
is. Don't look at the budget because Russia and Saudi Arabia are
fighting over which one will screw you at the pump and we have to
bomb Syria!
A pickpocket works by bumping into you
hard enough that you don't feel the hand in your pocket removing your
wallet. It's a simple distraction, sort of like Syria.
Who benefits from a war with a little
country that really provides us with nothing but a distraction? That
would be the war machine or the 1%, who pay to elect your
representatives who just happen to have heavy investments in
companies that supply the war machine.....and as an added benefit,
they get to steal your elderly relatives and friends money. Now
that's a win/win if I ever saw one. Well, for them...it's a lose/lose
for you but maybe you will even get your grandparents to move in with
you so you won't be lonely after you bury your kids. You do remember
how to change a diaper, don't you?
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