THIS SENIOR CITIZEN NAILED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming , Co-Chair of Obama's
deficit commission, calls senior citizens the Greediest
Generation as he compared "Social Security" to a Milk Cow
with 310 million teats.
August, 2010.

Here's a response in a letter from a unknown fellow in
Montana ....
I think he is a little ticked off!  He also tells it like it is !  
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"Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight..

1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for
FIFTY YEARS.

2.. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS
(since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).

3 My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other
Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing
account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid
the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero ambition
losers in return for votes, thus
bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a
Ponzi scheme that would have made Bernie Madoff proud.

4. Recently, just like Lucy &Charlie Brown, you and your ilk
pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American
seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full
retirement from age 65 to age 67.  NOW, you and your shill
commission is proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.

5  I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into
Medicare from Day One, and now you morons propose to
change the rules of the game. Why? Because you idiots
mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an  extent
that you need to steal money from Medicare to pay the bills.

6.  I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying
income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to
increase our taxes yet again. Why?
Because you incompetent b------s spent our money so
profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran
out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and
say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.

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To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bs"
on your incompetence. Well, Captain BS, I have a few
questions for YOU.

1. How much money have you earned from the American
taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?

2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political
career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement
benefits from the American taxpayers?

3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided
health insurance?

4.  What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are
you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal,
or, as usual, have  you exempted yourself and your political
cronies?

It is you, Captain BS, and your political co-conspirators called
Congress who are the "greedy" ones.  It is you and your
fellow nutcases who have bankrupted America and stolen the
American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers.  
And for what?  Votes.  That's right,sir.  You and yours have
bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your
pathetic political careers.  You know it, we know it, and you
know that we know it.

And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a ___.
If you like the way things are in America , delete this.  If you
agree with what a fellow Montana citizen says,  PASS IT ON!!!!
Ron Paul: The NDAA Repeals More Rights

Ron Paul
Infowars.com
December 27, 2011

Little by little, in the name of fighting terrorism, our Bill of Rights is
being repealed. The 4th amendment has been rendered toothless
by the PATRIOT Act. No more can we truly feel secure in our
persons, houses, papers, and effects when now there is an
exception that fits nearly any excuse for our government to search
and seize our property. Of course, the vast majority of Americans
may say “I’m not a terrorist, so I have no reason to worry.” However,
innocent people are wrongly accused all the time. The Bill of Rights
is there precisely because the founders wanted to set a very high
bar for the government to overcome in order to deprive an individual
of life or liberty. To lower that bar is to endanger everyone. When
the bar is low enough to include political enemies, our descent into
totalitarianism is virtually assured.

The PATRIOT Act, as bad is its violation of the 4th Amendment, was
just one step down the slippery slope. The recently passed National
Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) continues that slip toward tyranny
and in fact accelerates it significantly. The main section of concern,
Section 1021 of the NDAA Conference Report, does to the 5th
Amendment what the PATRIOT Act does to the 4th. The 5th
Amendment is about much more than the right to remain silent in the
face of government questioning. It contains very basic and very
critical stipulations about due process of law. The government
cannot imprison a person for no reason and with no evidence
presented or access to legal counsel.

The dangers in the NDAA are its alarmingly vague, undefined
criteria for who can be indefinitely detained by the US government
without trial. It is now no longer limited to members of al Qaeda or
the Taliban, but anyone accused of “substantially supporting” such
groups or “associated forces.” How closely associated? And what
constitutes “substantial” support? What if it was discovered that
someone who committed a terrorist act was once involved with a
charity? Or supported a political candidate? Are all donors of that
charity or supporters of that candidate now suspect, and subject to
indefinite detainment? Is that charity now an associated force?

Additionally, this legislation codifies in law for the first time authority
to detain Americans that has to this point only been claimed by
President Obama. According to subsection (e) of section 1021, “[n]
othing in this section shall be construed to affect existing law or
authorities relating to the detention of United States citizens, lawful
resident aliens of the United States, or any other persons who are
captured or arrested in the United States.” This means the president’
s widely expanded view of his own authority to detain Americans
indefinitely even on American soil is for the first time in this
legislation codified in law. That should chill all of us to our cores.

The Bill of Rights has no exemptions for “really bad people” or
terrorists or even non-citizens. It is a key check on government
power against any person. That is not a weakness in our legal
system; it is the very strength of our legal system. The NDAA
attempts to justify abridging the bill of rights on the theory that rights
are suspended in a time of war, and the entire Unites States is a
battlefield in the War on Terror. This is a very dangerous
development indeed. Beware.

Originally appeared at http://paul.house.gov
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34 Shocking Facts About U.S. Debt That Should Set
America On Fire With Anger
The Economic Collapse
Thursday, January 5, 2012

We have all been lied to.  For decades, the leaders of both major
political parties have promised us that they can fix our current system
and that they can get our national debt under control.  As the 2012
election approaches, they are making all kinds of wild promises once
again.  Well you know what?  It is all a giant sham.

The United States has gotten into so much debt that there will be no
coming back from this.  The current system is irretrievably broken. 30
years ago the U.S. debt was a horrific crisis that was completely and
totally out of control.  If we would have dealt with it back then maybe we
could have done something about it.  But now it is 15 times larger, and
we are adding more than a trillion dollars to the debt every single
year.  

The facts that you are about to read below should set America on fire
with anger.  Please share them with as many people as you can.  What
we are doing to our children and our grandchildren is absolutely
nightmarish.  Words like “abuse”, “financial rape”, “theft” and “crime”
do not even begin to describe what we are doing to future generations.

We were the wealthiest nation on earth, but it wasn’t good enough just
to squander all of our own money.  We had to squander the money of
our children and our grandchildren as well.  America has been so
selfish and so self-centered that it is hard to argue that we don’t
deserve what is about to happen to this country.  We have stolen the
future of America, and yet we strut around as if we are the smartest
generation that ever walked the face of the earth.

All of this prosperity that we see all around us is just an illusion.  It is a
false prosperity that has been purchased by the biggest mountain of
debt in the history of the world.

Did you know that if you added up all forms of debt in the United States
and divided it up equally that every single family in the country would
owe more than $683,000?

We are a nation that is absolutely addicted to debt, and the U.S. debt
crisis threatens to destroy everything that our forefathers built.

Yes, everything may seem fine for the moment, but what do you think
would happen if the federal government suddenly adopted a balanced
budget?

1.3 trillion dollars a year would be sucked right out of the economy and
we would be looking at an “economic readjustment” that would be mind
blowing.

Enjoy this false prosperity while you can, because it is not going to last.

Debt is a very cruel master, and our day of reckoning is almost here.

The following are 34 shocking facts about U.S. debt that should set
America on fire with anger….

#1 During fiscal year 2011, the U.S. government spent 3.7 trillion
dollars but it only brought in 2.4 trillion dollars.

#2 When Ronald Reagan took office, the U.S. national debt was less
than 1 trillion dollars.  Today, the U.S. national debt is over 15.2 trillion
dollars.

#3 During 2011, U.S. debt surpassed 100 percent of GDP for the first
time ever.

#4 According to Wikipedia, the monetary base “consists of coins,
paper money (both as bank vault cash and as currency circulating in
the public), and commercial banks’ reserves with the central bank.”  
Currently the U.S. monetary base is sitting somewhere around 2.7
trillion dollars.  So if you went out and gathered all of that money up it
would only make a small dent in our national debt.  But afterwards
there would be no currency for anyone to use.

#5 The U.S. government spent over 454 billion dollars just on interest
on the national debt during fiscal 2011.

#6 The U.S. government has total assets of 2.7 trillion dollars and has
total liabilities of 17.5 trillion dollars.  The liabilities do not even count
4.7 trillion dollars of intragovernmental debt that is currently
outstanding.

#7 During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has
accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George
Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office.

#8 It is being projected that the U.S. national debt will surpass 23
trillion dollars in 2015.

#9 According to the GAO, the U.S. government is facing 34 trillion
dollars in unfunded liabilities for social insurance programs such as
Social Security and Medicare.  These are obligations that we have
already committed ourselves to but that we do not have any money for.

#10 Others estimate that the unfunded liabilities of the U.S.
government now total over 117 trillion dollars.

#11 According to the GAO, the ratio of debt held by the public to GDP
is projected to reach 287 percent of GDP by 2086.

#12 Others are much less optimistic.  A recently revised IMF policy
paper entitled “An Analysis of U.S. Fiscal and Generational
Imbalances: Who Will Pay and How?” projects that U.S. government
debt will rise to about 400 percent of GDP by the year 2050.

#13 The United States government is responsible for more than a third
of all the government debt in the entire world.

#14 If you divide up the national debt equally among all U.S. taxpayers,
each taxpayer would owe approximately $134,685.

#15 Mandatory federal spending surpassed total federal revenue for
the first time ever in fiscal 2011.  That was not supposed to happen
until 50 years from now.

#16 Between 2007 and 2010, U.S. GDP grew by only 4.26%, but the U.
S. national debt soared by 61% during that same time period.

#17 During Barack Obama’s first two years in office, the U.S.
government added more to the U.S. national debt than the first 100 U.
S. Congresses combined.

#18 When you add up all spending by the federal government, state
governments and local governments, it comes to 46.6% of GDP.

#19 Our nation is more addicted to government checks than ever
before.  In 1980, government transfer payments accounted for just
11.7% of all income.  Today, government transfer payments account
for 18.4% of all income.

#20 U.S. households are now actually receiving more money directly
from the U.S. government than they are paying to the government in
taxes.

#21 A staggering 48.5% of all Americans live in a household that
receives some form of government benefits.  Back in 1983, that
number was below 30 percent.

#22 Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on
Medicaid.  Today, one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid.

#23 In 1950, each retiree’s Social Security benefit was paid for by 16U.
S. workers.  According to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, there are now only 1.75 full-time private sector workers for
each person that is receiving Social Security benefits in the United
States.

#24 The U.S. government now says that the Medicare trust fund will
run outfive years faster than they were projecting just last year.

#25 Right now, spending by the federal government accounts for
about 24 percent of GDP.  Back in 2001, it accounted for just 18
percent.

#26 If the U.S. government was forced to use GAAP accounting
principles (like all publicly-traded corporations must), the U.S.
government budget deficit would be somewhere in the neighborhood
of $4 trillion to $5 trillion each and every year.

#27 If you were alive when Christ was born and you spent one million
dollars every single day since that point, you still would not have spent
one trillion dollars by now.  But this year alone the U.S. government is
going to add more than a trillion dollars to the national debt.

#28 If right this moment you went out and started spending one dollar
every single second, it would take you more than 31,000 years to
spend one trillion dollars.

#29 A trillion $10 bills, if they were taped end to end, would wrap
around the globe more than 380 times.  That amount of money would
still not be enough to pay off the U.S. national debt.

#30 If the federal government began right at this moment to repay the
U.S. national debt at a rate of one dollar per second, it would take over
470,000 years to pay off the national debt.

#31 If Bill Gates gave every penny of his fortune to the U.S.
government, it would only cover the U.S. budget deficit for 15 days.

#32 According to Professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff, the U.S. is facing a
“fiscal gap” of over 200 trillion dollars in the future.  The following is a
brief excerpt from a recent article that he did for CNN….

The government’s total indebtedness — its fiscal gap — now stands at
$211 trillion, by my arithmetic. The fiscal gap is the difference,
measured in present value, between all projected future spending
obligations — including our huge defense expenditures and massive
entitlement programs, as well as making interest and principal
payments on the official debt — and all projected future taxes.

#33 If you add up all forms of debt in the United States (government,
business and consumer), it comes to more than 56 trillion dollars.  
That is more than$683,000 per family.  Unfortunately, the average
amount of savings per family in the U.S. is only about $4,735.

#34 The U.S. national debt is now more than 5000 times larger than it
was when the Federal Reserve was created back in 1913.

But do our leaders care about statistics such as these?
No.
In fact, Barack Obama says that we need to raise the debt limit by
another 1.2 trillion dollars.
The absurdity of raising the debt limit when we are already in so much
debt is beautifully illustrated by the video posted below….

I just thought that video was so well done.

The “huge cuts” that Congress has agreed to are absolutely
meaningless when compared to how rapidly our debt is exploding.

Calling those cuts “pocket change” would be an insult to pocket
change.

But it is not just U.S. debt that is the problem.  The European debt
crisis threatens to completely unravel in 2012 and Japan actually has
the highest debt to GDP ratio in the entire industrialized world.

In 2012, a total of 7,600,000,000,000 dollars of debt must be rolled
over by the G-7 nations, Brazil, Russia, India and China.

That doesn’t even count new borrowing.  That number just represents
old debts that are coming due that must be refinanced.

Anyone out there that insists that this debt bubble can be fixed under
our current system is lying.

A massive amount of financial pain is coming.

It is time for Americans to wake up from their television-induced comas.

It is time for Americans to get very angry.

Your future has been destroyed and the future of your children and
grandchildren has been destroyed.

You better take action while you still can.
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America ’s
debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the
US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we
now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign
countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal
policies. Increasing America ’s debt weakens us domestically
and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops
here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad
choices today onto the backs of our children and
grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of
leadership. Americans deserve better.”

-- Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
The latest toy has hit the shops -- a  talking Muslim doll.

Nobody knows what the hell it says,
because no one has the balls to pull the cord.
Cloward–Piven strategy
Wkipedia
From the article:
"proposed to create a crisis in the current welfare system – by exploiting the
gap between welfare law and practice – that would ultimately bring about its
collapse and replace it with a system of guaranteed annual income. They
hoped to accomplish this end by informing the poor of their rights to welfare
assistance, encouraging them to apply for benefits and, in effect,
overloading an already overburdened bureaucracy."
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