or swo says Uncle Sam.
Whoda ever thought?
Years ago I worked part time as a maintainence guy for a strip club. One day one of the regulars said that I ought to show up during regular hours becauuse there was some guy buying rounds for the house all night and I could probably get pretty toasted for free.
Actually it wasn't free, some other sucker was paying for it.
I dropped by for a couple nights and enjoyed watching this guy throw his cash around and awaited the shock on his face whaen he realized he had run out of money. This was back in the 80s and we're talking some real money here.
Of course, after a while he ran out of money and when he looked for sympathy none was forthcoming. He was laughed at for simply giving his fortune away.
The bird has finally come home to roost and I have no sympathy whatsoever for our lawmakers. Frankly, I think that quite a few of them should be handed a blindfold and a cigarette for what they have done over the years.
They are now broke because they have given all of our money away.
Those that we have elected to handle our affairs have taken our money and given countless billions away to foreign governments, greedy insiders and millions of people that are too damned lazy to get up off of their asses and take care of themselves and contribute to society.
Of course, the people that got up of of their dead asses and onto their dying feet every day and ingaged themselves in some form of constructive human endeavor to make money to pay taxes are going to be the ones that get screwed.
These are the guys that coughed up a portion of their weekly paychecks to give to our beloved government to hand out to those that are too lazy to take care of themselves and now they are going to get screwed.
Why? Because the powers that be have simply given it away to those that didn't deserve a single nickel of it.
The government has given away billions in welfare, foreign aid and worthless subsidies over the past couple of generations and spent our way into poverty.
Of the notably few schemes schemes the Feds have come up with that have worked, and I can think of only two or three, as soon as they work and start making money then the feds raid that fund.
Social Security is the classic example. It was well into the green and there was a fortune that was amassed and put aside so the program would work. This was probably the first time in history a Ponzi scheme was actually going to work, yet as soon as the feds ran out of money to give away they raided that fund and now it is broke.
Our elected officials seem to have taken it and given it all away.
I only have a high school education, but at least I can count. I know that you can only give away only as much money as you have. I learned to count when I saw what that fisherman did with an entire once in a lifetime season's earnings.
Then aain, I have a certain amount of respect for that squandering fisherman.
After all, he gave away his own money and not mine.
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Actually, Social Security was never going to work. When it was started, there were something like 30 or 40 taxpayers paying in for each beneficiary the system supported. These days there are only 3 taxpayers paying in for each beneficiary. The Baby Boomers are reaching retirement age and there are proportionately fewer current workers to support them. That's why that particular program is on the rocks.
ReplyDeleteOf course, at one time the Great Ponzi Scheme was actually working because it was an account all by itself.
ReplyDeleteEnter LBJs 'Great Society' programs which they could not afford so they plundered the SS funds and spent that on social programs and as usual the sucker is the person that put into it.