You definitely have a point here. And you know what sucks? I pay plenty to the fed just in income taxes each year. (graduated college 13 months ago, don't have anywhere near the loans some of my friends have, because I was smart and commuted and didn't rack up loans for housing and meal plans and books, paid for that stuff in cash, along with the gas money to get there). Although gas tax is a drop in the bucket at 18 cents per gallon (federal, not counting state). So they are making a ton of money on me from gas tax and student loan interst! Gas recently dropped to 3.52 in my city (3.80 in every single little city and town just outside my town for whatever reason). Driving my modded out LT1 to work hurts. So I've been driving the hell out of my Cavalier. 400 miles per week just to get to work hurts a little. The federal government really gets theirs. I wish people would realize this isn't a Republican/Demoract thing. The government will always get theirs. It's tough to fight it. The one good thing about this all is, if our government defaults on its loans to China, our goverment collapses. Our country should form a new government. It won't be the country that owes China all that money, it will be the failed government regime that couldn't pay it back!

 

You have to look at what SS was made for. If SS was used simply for what it was meant for (retired people) We would be fine. But now, SS is for "disabled" people, "handicapped" people and so on. This has dried up so much of the fund. PLUS, the fed has borrowed so much money against the SS fund that it is barely sustaining itself these days. Politicians saw how much money was available in the SS fund decades ago and got all sorts of crazy ideas on how to spend this money that never should have been touched.

 

 

As long as it holds out till they chuck me in the clay, I say no problemo

Honestly though, I'd just settle for a reformed govenrment thats alot smaller and focused on the needs inside its own borders for the most part and not beholden to larger corperations when it comes to domestic and foreign policy.

It would be alot cheaper.

Well that would be under the broad scope of social security, and honestly I'm fine with that if you are disabled or handicapped and your limited in income to the point that you either cant support yourself or you have to live deep into improverty.


Yep that was a problem, and talk about being really short sighted, I suppose at the time (didn't Nixon make the change????) the pervailing wisdom must have been that the working population would have kept about the same or grown compared to the windfall produced by the boomers.

 

Naw they will run another stupid contest and this time facebook fans will vote for the Fiesta "Carnage" package.