Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass..... Americans have always been suckers for a lie, believing in the unbelievable and accepting the improbable as so, while making room to place the impossible as a possible. When I was young all the old folks I knew somehow believed they paid in all the money they were to draw out in old age as Social Security, and the Government was holding all that money for them and this would give them an income to carry them into the next life with dignity. I can't recall when in my life conversation on the source of funding for Social Security started. I do recall that many of those who were drawing it were belligerent and combative about their right to recieve it. Likewise I'm not even sure when the impotence and the folly of the system became a reality to me. I remember when my father signed up for his 'pension' he told me he 'might as well start getting back some of what he'd been paying on since it started'. As it turned out he and his employer together paid less than ten thousand dollars into Social Security in his working lifetime. By the time he died at 85 he had appreciated more than four hundred thousand dollars worth of money and services from the government he paid less than twenty thousand in total taxes and social security to in his entire life. So how could such a discrepancy in balance sheets happen? Who was watching the money bin? How could we be suckered into buying into such a future destroying machine? How could the greatest generation fight and die to preserve our great nation then turn around and be the principle generation to destroy the future of the next twenty generations? They didn't. At least not in their prime. Only as they reached old age did they become needy beyond our means. By then the truth was lost to the ages to be replaced by the jabberwocky of the politicians who clung to power by making a populace dependant on them for their survival. Much later on in life I had a conversation with my Father in which I ask him if he believed he'd paid in the kind of money he was getting back. Without hesitation he said 'No'. I asked him where he thought the money was coming from, and he said it was coming from all the people who were working and currently paying in. I asked him if he understood that to be the way it worked from the beginning, and he said no, he thought he'd only get what he paid in. I asked him when did he realize it was basically on the back of the next generation , and he couldn't remember. I asked him where would their money be coming from when it was their turn, and he said ' The same place mine's coming from, the younger people who are working'. I've never believed in the credibility of such a scheme, because no matter what county you're from, the math just doesn't add up, not to mention the degradation of pride and self esteem of those recieving it. The whole dance might have continued on much longer had it not been for the invention of the birth control pill and it's common use in the '60's, which resulted in an unknown decline of pregnancies, and the murder of up to 75 million babies through abortion. We unwittingly looked the other way as it happened and told ourselves it was the right way to form a more perfect society. Now we have the results of our actions. Millions more than we admit in illegal aliens within our shores taking jobs that we don't have people for, the outsourcing of jobs to other countries because we don't have a competitive labor pool to staff with, and last but not least, not enough bodies available to pay in enough money to allow the kind of programs and expansions my fathers' generation has enjoyed. Another hundred million or so born over the last 45 years or so would have certainly come in handy about now for all those baby boomers who think they're going to have the same ride their Daddy did. There's only so many openings for door greeter's at WalMart. The rest of you better get your asses prepared to get a job of some kind......... if you can get past all those illegals ready to do anything to get a job of anykind..............