Social Security or Neo-conservatism - you choose

Has anyone remembered or did anyone notice that as soon as George Bush got elected (2004), he wanted to do away with social security? Well, he evidently didn't have the mandate he thought he did. But the cause hasn't gone away. This nation has been blithely spending money our grandchildren will never have. On a personal level, people carry debt that cannot possibly be paid off before death. We import everything except jobs. On a business level it is becoming much more acceptable for corporations to default on retirement plans. On the government level, we (through our elected representatives) ear mark billions of dollars. We give away billions of dollars. We pour hundreds of billions of dollars into Iraq. They have enough oil to buy the United States from China.
I keep asking; "What is the bottom line - for me?"
I think I can now see that line becoming visible through the mud.
Because we have gutted our tax collection rates in a system that is derstandable -
(a derstandable system is a system that is un-understandable:-) - we will have no recourse but to suck every penny out of every social system, Social Security, Medicare, Public Health, Education, Welfare, Veterans Benefits, and every other social system that grew out of the New Deal and the Great Society.
Why do I think this?
Right Now, Rhode Island has a gap between the next state budget of about $600, 000,000 and projected revenue. Our Constitution (thankfully) prohibits the state from deficit spending. How is the Governor dealing with this crisis? He laid off 1000 state workers. How is the legislature dealing with this? They voted to not have a Christmas party and are slashing support for the poorest and sickest and most venerable of it's citizens while pushing through tax cuts for the richest of our citizens. They also want to scrap the state retirement system and they sold our share of the tobacco settlement two years ago to balance that budget.
So what will the nation do?
If we let them, our elected representatives will spend your retirement benefits. But don't worry, there are three magic words that any stroke victim can learn which will ensure a subsistence wage as long as you can be dependsed upon to show up for work. Those words?

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