Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass....Conditioned thinking and behaviour takes a long time to achieve. It often becomes so attractive that the ones being conditioned insist on helping even though they may not understand the destination they are being led to. In a conditioned world sometimes thought is forbidden. Crazy? Not so fast Pardner. It is unacceptable to question anything about the holocaust if it colors the Jewish slant on it. But there are questions. Not about The Germans hatred of World War 2 Jews, but were any facts misstated and have the Jews used their ill fortune to form world opinion and to excuse their modern day behaviour? To ask anything of this genre will produce the opinion you are anti-semetic. Only recently has the common man arrived to a thought process that allows him to question the war in Iraq without fear of total condemnation by even those close to him. This war of course should absolutely be questioned. We are afraid to discuss in a real way with honesty, racial relations in our country. The ones who ride this horse howl with such ferocity that we quake with fear and guilt at the very idea of asking 'are you doing anything for yourself'? We aren't able to define welfare anymore and are afraid to call it what it is, preferring to call it aid to this and aid to that or such and such program that doesn't sound welfarish, but is, and does little except rob the souls of the recipient and enable them to continue on as they are. We recoil in fear at the prospect of rearranging things to protect the future of America's young, such as social security letting those screaming the loudest continue on digging the hole. My father at 85 died in 2000, a 23 year recipient of social security. On examination, I found he AND his employers paid a combined amount just over 9 thousand dollars in his entire working life into the system. Most of those his age paid about the same. What was his return? Just over a hundred thousand in monthly benefits, grants to repair his house, 18 thousand and some change, Don't know how much food stamps etc. There was 24 thousand a year in funds from the gov's coffers for more than 3 years of nursing home care, round that off to 75 thousand, lots of medical care, too much to run down, but the last two years of his life found 61 thousand followed by 87 thousand (therapy treatments, medicines, hospitilization, surgeries, and intensive care stays, for a less than correct total of 341 thousand bucks. Not bad for less than 10 thousand invested. Multiply that by the millions just like that and you get a sense of where this is headed. In four months I qualify by age for social security benefits. Will I be signing up? Hell no. I'm healthy and I'll work till it's over. Besides, my concience won't allow it..................