In
the 1930s Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal Democrats created
Social Security as “insurance.” But of course, it wasn’t insurance.
Anyone in the insurance industry who ran their company into the ground
by creating unfunded liabilities would quickly find themselves behind
bars. It was a con job to make people more dependent upon government.
Subsequent Democrats used this dependency as a political tool to beat
down any sensible alternatives or modifications to Social Security. In
fact, Social Security quickly became the “third rail” of politics.
Anyone who mentioned it at all was demagogued as wanting to destroy
Social Security. They were labeled as uncaring, dangerous, etc. It was
the worst form of political dishonesty, but it worked. As the years
went along the politicians kept adding more and more people to the
Social Security rolls, people who had contributed little or nothing into
it, but received benefits from contributions by others. The social
security tax continued to increase by raising the minimum amount that
had to be contributed each year. And while those who contribute into
Social Security think of themselves as contributing just 6.2% into the
program, the truth is that they are contributing 12.4% into the program
because their 6.2% is matched by their employer (note the amount
contributed in 2011 is reduced as a so-called “stimulus”). In other
words, the program was dishonest from the very beginning. But it got
worse. As the years rolled by and the unfunded liabilities grew, the
politicians became even more greedy and cynical as they eventually spent
all the money in the Social Security fund and left it empty with only
an IOU note. Today the program is completely unfunded and worse yet,
the point has come where the amount of contributions going into the fund
each year is less than the withdrawals that year. By accepted
accounting standards, the kind that you and I live by, Social Security
is insolvent. It was a dishonest scheme to begin with and now the day
of reckoning has come.
Of
course, the politicians weren’t satisfied with creating a political
dependency through Social Security. The next step was to add Medicare,
another phony “insurance” program that was just another step on the road
to socialized medicine. Socialized medicine was first proposed under
Truman and, as we now know, is reality under an abomination called
Obamacare. And what’s the purpose of all these programs? Is it
compassion? If it’s compassion, it’s a distorted form of compassion.
It’s more likely that the driving force is political avarice. The idea
of a compassionate liberal is, to put it charitably, a myth. Studies
now confirm that liberals are among the stingiest of Americans when it
comes to giving their own dollars. Who gives to charity? About 65% of
all personal giving originates with conservatives and Christians. What
the liberals do contribute to is generally non-charitable in nature.
They give to politicians and to liberal advocacy groups, but their
personal giving to true charities is miserly, at best.
But
I’ve gotten a bit off track. President Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and
Harry Reid have put our nation in a desperate financial situation by
spending money we don’t have on wasteful projects that have made the
recession worse. Their belief that the government can spend its way
into national prosperity has taken our nation to the brink of economic
collapse.
They
have created a national debt that threatens to doom our children to
permanent economic malaise. They have done everything possible to steal
the American dream from minorities and all Americans. And now, when
the bills for their reckless spending come due, they punt.
They
created unsustainable economic models in Social Security and Medicare
and Obamacare by telling lies, things that simply were not true. FDR
took the reins of government from another progressive, Herbert Hoover.
It looked like a short depression until the wild and uncontrolled
spending of the New Deal Democrats drove the nation into the worst and
longest depression in the history of the United States.
Did
President Obama and the Democrats hear the outrage of the American
people and cut back spending? Absolutely not! The new Obama budget, if
you can call it that, calls for spending over a trillion dollars more
than what the government brings in. If passed it will drive us even
closer to the brink of insolvency. But even more cynically, the
President refuses to deal with the real problems of Social Security and
Medicare insolvency. His budget ignores these very real issues
completely.
His
totally political approach is to ignore the situation and make the
Republicans deal with these issues. And then when they do so, fry them
on the third rail of politics—Social Security and Medicare.
Apparently
his attitude is “to hell with the United States” as long as we can
remain in power. Today is the day of decision for America. Will we
succumb to further government welfare programs and degenerate into a
weak European socialist state, or will we have sufficient character to
return to the principles of those who founded this nation? The left is
counting on there being a majority of Americans who will rebel at any
attempt to stop the spending and balance the budget by dealing with
Social Security and Medicare. They believe they have found a way to
crush the Tea Party Revolt.
Are
they right, or are there still a majority of clear thinking, honest,
hard working Americans who will make sacrifices so that their children
can enjoy the blessings of the greatest, most free, most moral nation in
the history of the world? Are there enough Americans of character and
understanding who will ignore the screams and lies of the left and deal
like adults with this problem that has been created solely by ideologues
on the left?
Those
of us who are committed to freedom and traditional moral values are
engaged in the greatest battle for the soul of America since the
founding of our Republic. Whether good intentioned or ill, those
aligned against us seek a powerful, centralized government that will use
its power to run our lives. They see individual freedom as an obstacle
to their plan to create a better world. It will be a world in which
those who see themselves as smarter, wiser, and more moral will decide
how we live, the limits of free speech and religion, what freedoms we
are allowed, and the limit of our personal aspirations.
Theirs
is not the America our Founders dreamed of, nor is it the one you and I
grew up in. But do not doubt that they are powerful and will do
anything to achieve their goal. They still control the national new
media that marches lockstep with them in their drive toward a European
socialist state.
The
election of 2012 will determine the fate of our nation. We made a
great comeback in 2010, but let there be no doubt that the 2012 election
will be a hard fought contest whose outcome will affect how our
children and grandchildren live. Will they inherit the America of our
Founding Fathers, or will they be reduced to wards of the state?
Right
now, today, we must all re-dedicate ourselves to working, donating and
praying for a great victory in 2012 that will put the United States of
America back on the course of fiscal sanity and personal
responsibility. We must work hard for a return to limited,
Constitutional government. With God’s blessing we will triumph!
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