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FDR's Social Security plan was a government Ponzi Scheme that is now nearing bankruptcy.
It’s noteworthy that Barack Hussein Obama insisted that his Stimulus Package, Cap and Trade, and National Health Care be passed immediately to avert financial and social disasters of apocalyptic magnitude. But he can’t bring himself to make a decision regarding his hand-picked general’s request for an additional 40,000 troop deployment in Afghanistan.
The constitution implies that the Commander in Chief must first and foremost be America’s leader in foreign affairs and leave most of the domestic programs to Congress. Yet, Obama has turned his attention to all matters domestic while allowing his troops to twist in the wind.
The left’s favorite slogan during the Bush administration was, “Bush lied, people died.” But today our troops are dying in Afghanistan at an alarming rate while Obama fiddles.
Speaking of lies, it was Mark Twain who said, “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
Here is a fact: Our government is continuously lying to us.
President Obama promised that his trillion dollar stimulus package would keep unemployment under 8%. When it reached 9.2% the Obama administration announced that the recession was over and we would soon reap the benefits of the stimulus. This week unemployment cracked double digits at 10.2%, the highest since 1985. The Obama administration’s response: We planned it that way, but it will begin to drop next year. Trust us.
Recently Obama announced that his stimulus bill created or saved nearly one million jobs. But the trillion dollar Stimulus Bill shows absolutely no sign that it’s working except to increase the size of government. It has yet to create a single new private sector job. As far as jobs saved, that is another administration lie. Reports of “saved” jobs across the country are being padded to protect Obama’s presidency.
Historically Americans have trusted government to their detriment.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Social Security Ponzi Scheme is a prime example. Social Security was established in 1935. At the time Americans were told that the funds would be set aside, waiting for Americans when they retire, and no one could take those funds away from them. But the funds were never set aside. They were placed in a general fund and spent to the extent that after 74 year, nearly every penny that was ever put into the plan since its inception is wiped out, and young workers will probably not see any of the benefits.
Fannie Mae is another example or gross government negligence. It was established in 1938, seventy one years ago. Fannie’s sibling, Freddie Mac was born in 1970. With government mismanagement and corrupt politicians left to play fast and loose with those funds, Fannie and Freddie have led the entire world into the worst economic collapse in 80 years.
Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty was started in 1964. Since then over one trillion dollars in taxpayer money has been confiscated from working Americans each year by our government and transferred to the poor. The United States has the best-off impoverished people in the world. The only thing this government program has accomplished is that nearly 50% of all Americans are now on some kind of government handout program
Medicare and Medicaid are government programs that were established in 1965 at an estimated annual cost of about $90 billion. Today they cost over $190 billion each year, with fraud sucking up nearly as much as the estimated cost of the entire program in 1965. Both programs are bankrupt. And yet government is using them as models for Obamacare
"Cash for Clunkers" was a laughable government program and a monument to Congressional ineptitude. The idea was to get old cars off the market and replace them with new, energy efficient cars and at the same time aid in the recovery of the U.S. auto industry. Unfortunately 80% of the cars purchased turned out to be produced by foreign companies. Six of the top ten autos purchased were Japanese, and none of the top ten were made by GM or Chrysler.
The best selling domestic product was the Ford F150 pick up truck which gets an EPA estimated seventeen miles per gallon. As far as the $4500 cash allowance for used vehicles, the actual cost to you the taxpayer was about $24,000 per vehicle. The results of this well thought out government program to help our economy: Empty new vehicle show rooms after the program ended, and the reality that about 85% of the new vehicles purchased during the program would have been purchased anyway during the same time period.
And how about the swine flu “crisis?” With the government running the flu inoculation program we are a mere 100 million doses short of promised supplies for this fall. One reason is that the government has set the mandated cost of shots so low that out of over thirty pharmaceutical companies that manufactured flu vaccine pre-Clinton era, only five remain.
The next time you decide to wait in line for three hours for a flu shot, ponder what Obamacare will be like and tell us again why we should allow our government to run a national health care program that will control over 15% of our national economy. Could it be because we trust our government to keep their promises?
If you think that, I have a lovely bridge in Brooklyn for sale.
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