I could do with out the pittance I get from SS, even though I paid the bastards all my working life for it. I never asked for it, but Id be happy just to get some of what I paid in to reinvest myself, its basically what Ive done with it anyway. I realize too, my own military retirement represents a big chunk of that entitlement debt.

SS could have been privatized, but we sensed that was a loosing fight when we asked for it a few years ago.

I suppose all any of us that pay attention to politics would like is for the government to just leave us the hell alone. They won’t, of course, because collectively, we are the source of what they want to redistribute.

What kills me is that anyone who has looked into politics, and into cap-and-trade (I HATE intentionally mis-named items) knows it does not reduce carbon (and, so what, global warming wasn’t real - just a device to gain power), and it allows for redistribution of wealth into the hands of favored power elites.

It’s like dealing iwth additcs - I swear: “Just a LITTLE more and I’ll be straight, this is the last time….. I SWEAR.”

More power, more money, and a constant attempt to create a permanent voting bloc of dependent voters, class warfare, racial disharmony (to prove there IS racial disharmory), and a pure unadulterated lust for access to power … and thereby the power to hand out favors and gain still more power.

Honestly, we need to dismantle about 50% of gov’t - and while it’ll hurt all those sucking on the teat - those who are productive will be fine.

Yes, that means I won’t have any expectation of getting SS, or medicade etc - but, I’m fine with that - we’ve tried it the other way - and frankly, we’re freaking broke.

And by the time 2012 rolls around, any dismanteling of anything will set a bunch of disgruntled government employees out of work, prolonging the depression, and giving the Dems. cannon fodder for 2016.

Face it, were going to be stuck with this bs, and the best we can probably do is reform it with another 2 or 3 thousand pages of legalese. Mean time the entitlement driven debt will grow and grow, thanks to all the dumb asses that bit the hook 2 years ago.

Wrong!

Dingy will find a way to re-introduce each of the favored pieces of legislation after the election, and the jackasses who voted against it before (but still lost their re-election bids) can freely vote for it this time around because they’ll have nothing to lose - they already lost.

And once passed, Duh-1 can veto any legislation in the next session of Congress cancelling what the jackasses pass after the election because he’ll still be veto-proof.

Words count, votes count, who is elected counts. It’s time the public wakes up and smells the socialism they’ve voted for in last few decades.