Florida LTTE: Don't play mind games with Social Security

The campaign ads are going to write themselves next year...

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For the past 57 years I have paid into Social Security. During all of those years, politicians on both sides of the aisle have told all of us that Social Security was sound, and that seniors could depend on getting their benefits as originally promised...

In a recent interview, President Obama said he "could not guarantee that Social Security checks would go out if the debt ceiling was not raised."

If the president is correct, all of the political guarantees we have heard since 1935 just became an empty promise. And if he is correct, then Social Security is truly a Ponzi scheme similar to the billion dollar Ponzi scheme which landed Bernie Madoff in prison for life...
For the first time that I can remember, a U.S. president has used Social Security payments as a leverage tool to get what he wants out of Congress. If the president or Congress disrupts the payments of Social Security, what remains is a Ponzi scheme.

If monies collected for Social Security are less than the payment obligations, either through decreased collections or deliberate presidential action, then the American voter has been misled for 76 years!

Russ Sloan

http://www.dailycommercial.com/money/story/072411RussSloan

but Americans are going to be more terrorized by losing SS/Medicare/Medicaid benefits than they ever were by Al Qaeda...and in the end? More people will lose their lives to this than Al Qaeda could have ever dreamed of.

protection. Al Qaeda has already won. We kill a terrorist
and part of his family and create 5 more terrorists.
If we could back away from the 6 wars we might have
enough money to save this country. If the wars continue
and people start losing retirement funds it won't matter
how many wars we win or how many terrorists we kill.
There will not be a country left to worry about.