Social Security, Medicare and Entitlements
In the national dialog, our elected officials have begun to blur the distinctions between “entitlements”, Medicare and Social Security. They have a reason for this, and as secrets go, it’s not really all that “secret”.
First, let’s end the confusion caused by calling Medicare and Social Security “entitlements”. They’re not. In fact, there’s a HUGE difference between Medicare, Social Security and Entitlements. Govt. has been stealing money out of every paycheck issued since the 1930’s for Social Security, and since the 1970’s for Medicare. We were forced into “contributing” to these funds, under penalty of prison (or death, should we resist arrest for “tax evasion”), but, they forced us into this for our “own good”. In this way, we are able to “retire” on Social Security and not be forced into poverty when we’re too old to work (LOL), and Medicare was our “guarantee” we’d never have to choose between buying a can of dog food for dinner, and paying for our life-saving medication.Washington’s dirty little secret is that none of the money paid into these programs exists anymore. It’s all been squandered on pork projects geared to get career politicians endlessly re-elected. Now, if Washington wants to return every nickel taken from us up to this point for both of these Ponzi schemes, and then abolish both of them, because they’re too expensive, GREAT! I’m sure I’m not alone in having NEVER wanted to be forced into contributing to these programs in the first place.
Entitlements: (under what Constitutional authority do these even exist?) are absolutely free to the recipient. Want Welfare, Food Stamps, Subsidized Housing, WIC Checks, Medicaid, SSI? If you have a pulse, you’re qualified! You don’t have to “contribute” anything, you only have to demonstrate the requisite level of poverty. You’re certainly not required to even look for a job, and, God forbid, anyone should suggest that you be tested for use of illegal drugs, and if you test positive, should be denied access to the apparently bottomless pockets of the American taxpayer. No one should ever be forced to "waste" their own money on food, and then have to make do without their street drugs, right? Hell, you don’t even have to be a US citizen, or even legally in the country in order to receive “entitlements”. Alright, Mr. or Ms. Liberal Democrat, RINO and country club, old school checked pants Republican, I know what you’re thinking right now—“Hey, Leonard, I thought you were supposed to be a Christian! Aren’t Christians supposed to help feed and comfort the poor?” You’re absolutely right. We are. Because any liberal (and most RINOS) will tell you the Constitution clearly states: “…there shall be a separation of church and state…” I need go no further than reiterating this very argument. The Government isn’t Christian (or Jewish, or Moslem, or Buddhist, or Shintoist, Daoist or any other “ist”) and is therefore required to NOT feed and comfort the poor. That would, however, be intellectually dishonest. Anyone that has actually read the Constitution will point out that it says no such thing. It says “…Congress shall make no law respecting any establishment of religion, nor prohibit the free practice thereof…” It’s the only place in the entire document where religion is mentioned. Christians do feed and comfort the poor, however. You can’t name a Christian church that doesn’t do this. I’d be willing to bet you can’t name a synagogue, mosque or temple that doesn’t, either. All a poor person has to do is go to their house of worship, and ask. If they don’t worship anyplace, then, perhaps, they should re-assess their relationship with the Almighty. If nothing else, they could pretend to worship someplace, just so they can take advantage of the kindness and generosity of the legitimate worshippers. I’m sure that many recipients of “entitlements” (not all) are already accustomed to telling whatever lies they deem necessary in order to con others into or out of something; cash, a meal, drugs, parole, whatever. It won’t require any kind of a learning curve or challenge to their innate laziness, and will certainly ease the burden on the taxpayers forced to fund these unconstitutional programs.
While we’ve touched on the subject of entitlements and those who are illegally in the country, and before we move onto to other items, STOP pretending that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens. The US Supreme Court dealt with this in their 1898 decision, U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, held by a vote of 5-4 that a child of two legal resident aliens is entitled to birthright citizenship BECAUSE both parents were in the country LEGALLY at the time of the child’s birth.
I know that it’s politically impossible after over 70 years of entitlements to cut them off entirely, but how about cutting off illegal aliens from this entitlement “gravy train”? As a nation, we’re broke! We simply can’t afford to continue with this lunacy. It wouldn’t be all that complicated to fix, either. Don’t have social workers commit “racism” by asking an applicant whether or not they are citizens. When you print the new entitlement application forms, add a line just above the signature line that reads (in as many languages as you like) “I acknowledge that it is a felony for anyone not legally in the US to receive on his/her own or anyone else’s behalf, any publicly funded “benefit” or any proceeds thereof. The penalty for violation of this is 5 years in a federal prison.” Of course, we’d have to find elected officials with the testicular fortitude to pass such a law…
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