By Timothy Kelheart Social Security, the American retirement fund has been threatened by wealthy bankers and the elite since its inception in 1935 by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now in the present day, politicians have been floating the idea of cutting this crucial and hard earned safety...

By Timothy Kelheart

Social Security, the American retirement fund has been threatened by wealthy bankers and the elite since its inception in 1935 by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now in the present day, politicians have been floating the idea of cutting this crucial and hard earned safety net for the elderly as the Baby Boomer generation begins to enter retirement and begin to collect the money that they paid into this system.

Politicians at the behest of their wealthy donors are implying that Social Security could ‘run out’ with the Baby Boomer generation beginning to collect the money that they were forced to pay during their lifetime of work. And with a smaller working class paying into Social Security they imply that you and I will never see a dime of it.

This distortion of reality, among other falsities that these Congress Creatures spew are grossly incorrect. One of many reasons this thought process is so utterly foolish to believe is that we have an ever expanding national debt, currently around 21 trillion dollars. For reference in January of 2009 it was at $11 trillion.

Politicians even have the audacity of dressing up the taking away of entitlements with a disgusting word, austerity. Austerity does not benefit the people, it hurts them. It takes away what they earned, paid into, and expect to have as tax payers for their retirement and well-being in society. Greece was recently ravished and ransacked with austerity by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and while their citizens are suffering, the pockets of the debt holding bankers only get fatter.

Never let any politician, fat cat banker, or ‘journalist’ tell you ‘we cannot afford that’ or ‘where do you suppose we’ll get the money for that’ because it is malarkey. The U.S. prints money daily, without end, and allocates it to this or that with no limit in sight for something they would like to spend it on. The U.S. congress was able to pull an additional $61 billion out of thin air to increase the already bloated ‘defense’ budget to $700 billion a year. They can surly find other billions to pay for our social programs.

To say that we need to cut social programs because we ‘can’t afford it’ is revolting and reprehensible; any politician who would say such a thing, let alone vote for it, is not serving interest of the common people, but rather the interest of fat cats on Wall St. Any politician that wants to hurt your financial well-being is not only unfit to hold office but their removal must be sought!