Confusion…is an Art Form for the Rulers
Nobody Reads
It’s clear. If anybody in authority, whether it be lawyers, school boards, putting a bed from IKEA together, voting in ANY election, or the government giving you instructions, you can be SURE anything you read will not make any sense.
Do you honestly think they WANT you to know what they are doing?
EXAMPLE: I have two magazines in my bathroom. AARP and Amac. I got Amac to see if it really WAS in improvement over AARP. What I found out is, somewhere in the pages I feel Liz Cheney is staring back at me, giving me the evil eye. At least with AARP I know Bernie Sanders is probably on the board of directors.
I came to an article called “Ask Rusty” in Amac who fancies himself the Dear Abby of how to take care of your Social Security. Yes, yes, the rules of SS change as much as Biden changes his diapers. You really have to pay attention.
The question was along the lines of “How much can I make on TOP of my Social Security yearly? And here was the concluding answer:
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For awareness, if you were to return to work in any year between 2022 and the year prior to the year you reach your FRA (Full Retirement Age) and you exceeded the annual earnings limit, Social Security would take back benefits equal to $1 for every $2 you are over the limit. In the year you reach FRA, if you were to work and exceed the limit, SS would take back benefits equal to $1 for every $3 you exceeded the limit by. However, at your FRA, you’ll receive time-credit for any months your benefits were withheld because you exceeded the earning limit, which will result in your benefit amount being increases slightly at your FRA. In this way, you may, over time, recover any benefits that were withheld because you exceeded the earnings limit.
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SAY WHAT?

Read that fast. Read that backwards. Does it make sense to you? Why should the government even be allowed to dictate in the first place HOW much money you make after 65?
In the FIRST place, why in the WORLD can’t you make as MUCH money as you want after your retirement age and still collect what you are OWED of which you paid into ALL YOUR LIFE? After all, they would STILL be taking taxes out of whatever you are making. And SECOND place, WHY should illegals, who never paid into it at all, get more than YOU do the rest of your life?
For that matter, why was Congress allowed to unlock SS and spend it down to nothing so that nobody knows if it even HAS any money in it? And why should our rich Congressmen get big pensions the rest of their lives while our SS goes to paying for their big pensions?
We all know it’s a big Ponsi scam, but it’s basically breadcrumbs now to the old, AND the old VOTE.
And here’s the real kicker: Nobody should have to pay taxes on the SS money when they start getting it every year. It should be tax free PERIOD.
I could go into a whole rant about SS, but really, I should stick to the point. Whenever lawyers want to confuse you, they write directions so totally misleading that even Einstein was befuddled.
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.” —Albert Einstein.
If he were alive today, that list would be VERY long indeed.
And this habit of doublespeak fills our airways, our politicians lying mouths, and even the most simply things, they can and DO confuse you with.
BECAUSE…they want you to do what THEY want you to do. And if they said anything simply, then YOU would understand: YOU are getting screwed.
Maybe that’s why they hate the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
It’s just too…simply understood. And that’s why they HAVE to rewrite it whenever they can.

Nobody Remembers Warren Shore
Nobody Remembers…
Social Security…every politician will tell you DON’T touch it! After all, to Americans, it’s THEIR money…and the government told them they could have it back when they retired.
(Laugh here.) And you will be taxed on it WHEN you take it.
Remember when President George W. Bush went on his ‘reforming Social Security’ tour?
Nobody does…
But while everybody knows Social Security is bankrupt, I do remember Bush did a horrible job trying to sell to the American people that investing their money would give them more when they retired.
All you have to do is realize how the top 1 percent has benefited from investing, and wonder WHY the American people don’t get it.
Too bad Warren Shore wasn’t around to help President Bush.
In 1974, Warren Shore did a series of articles that were published in Chicago Today…and here are a few pointers from Mr. Shore for us to remember…
From the Annals of America Volume 20
Here are some startling facts: (Remember nobodies out there…it’s 1974 when he wrote this.)
During the last 20 years, the taxes we pay for Social Security have grown a staggering 800 per cent…more than 10 times the cost of living rise for the same years.
The Social Security restrictions against earning more than a poverty wage ($2,880) per year while drawing benefits remain in full force until age 72, when more than 99 percent of Americas are either fully retired or dead.
More than half of all America taxpayers pay more out to the Social Security administration than they pay in income tax, and the percentage is growing.
How could the system called “a ray of hope” in 1937 when it was enacted, have become what University of California economist Pete Somers recently termed “the biggest single roadblock to the security of the American wage earner.”?
The System now takes so much for the U.S. paycheck that saving is discouraged.
Intended to help the low-income worker, Social Security is instead paying maximum benefits to those who can afford not to work, and reduce benefits to those who must work.
By 1948 Social Security took $12.60 for every $100 we could save. By 1950 the payroll bite had grown to $20.40 for every $100, and by 1955 it was $36.20 for every $100 in household savings.
The tax that was supposed to encourage saving continued to grow faster than Americans could afford to save. In 1960, average yearly household saving in the richest country in the world had slumped to $320 a dismal 140 per cent drop in 18 years.
That year Social Security took $63.90 for every $100 we still had left
In 1773, the Social Security administration took $84 dollars to every $100 we saved.
Milton Friedman has termed the last 20 years of Social Security “a crushing defeat for the average wage earner.
Right.
Everyone would be better off getting dividends from their money.
But while all the politicians say that the American people will not let them reform it, Nobody Thinks that the Social Security Tax is what keeps all the millions of illegals fed, housed, and reproducing. Congress needs to keep that supply flowing.
But…at what price? Social Security fraud costs more than 10 BILLION a year.
So, they steal your money out of your check, give it to those who don’t deserve it, give you less when you retire, and in the meantime, due to the Federal Reserve devaluing the dollar by propping up the rich, your Social Security is worth less and you will be eating grilled cheese if you’re lucky enough to live to be 90.
Meanwhile, someone else is getting what you worked hard for…
If it was yours to invest…then NO one could touch it.
But if that happened THEY couldn’t control it, could they?
And that’s why Nobody Remembers Warren Shore, except me.
Whose Right? Christie Or Huckabee?
Nobody Wins
For some reason, I couldn’t get this exchange between Christie and Huckabee out of my mind. Watch this scene from the GOP debate above:
It’s all about HOW the government should take care of Social Security.
So, here’s the problem: Christie claims that 71 percent of the federal budget is spent on entitlement and debt service. Does he just mean Social Security and Medicaid and Medicare? Is he including all the welfare and food stamps and the millions of dollars given out in fraudulent payments to illegal’s and dead people? Does ‘debt service’ include the pensions of government workers? (Remember, HALF the population works for the government) He doesn’t say.
He goes on to say how he would fix it: Raise the retirement age…slowly. And then don’t give it to people who make over $200,000 and have $5 million in assets. (Not exactly a lot there, small group.)
Huckabee gives the important fact that the government stole this money from us, and wasted it. His approach is right. It was stolen from the people, let Congress give up their HUGE retirement paychecks. Most all of them are millionaires, so he is agreeing here with Christie, BUT…Christie wants to appear as a pragmatist, and cut those entitlements, because yes, it was stolen, but too late now to blame anyone.
The whole thing was a Ponzi scheme in the first place, but that’s another blog.
Christie’s game plan is the deed is done. Get over it. Now you need to fork out more. It’s just a reality.
And so, let’s say they do this, screw the American people, and take more money, and give out less. They will just spend whatever money they receive on something else, and the country is STILL broke.
You KNOW that will happen.
The money will pour into the Social Security Office and the money will flow out, to pay for some Presidential vacation in Hawaii, and black hole operations nobody ever finds out about.
Huckabee ends the debate with the solution of a fair tax.
Huckabee is for the people in this: Christie is for the government. Christie is almost a borderline socialist.
There is another solution: We need money? Cut out the BILLIONS of fraud and waste from every department. Get rid of about 200 bloated government departments that do nothing but watch porn all day. Get rid of the IRS, the ERA, and half a dozen other departments made just to suck up the money.
Trim the fat. Do we REALLY need a government that employs HALF the population?
No. But Christie is trying to tell you to grow up–you’ve been robbed. Deal with it.
That’s like Michael Brown pushing that little cigar owner guy out-of-the-way: Hey mister, you’ve been robbed. DEAL with it.
Where’s the Godfather when you need him?
When a government keeps stealing your money, and then spending your money, and then bankrupts the nation, and then wants MORE…
Nobody Wins.
Nobody Remembers: Woodrow Wilson’s Great Train Ride
“In politics there are no accidents,” Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said. “If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
Nobody Remembers
Nobody Thinks that it is no coincidence that in this month’s issue of Vanity Fair, there was a article by Scott Berg, on the topic of Woodrow Wilson’s train trip made around the country to promote his idea of a world government: Wilson called it, the “League of Nations.” (Now known as the United Nations.) And his train was called, “The Mayflower.”
Adding insult to the original boat.
According to Scott, FDR idolized him, Harry Truman thought he was “The greatest of all greats,” and Richard Nixon also worshipped him. Scott sets out, in a dozen ways, to compare Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama.
But while Berg really admired Wilson for making the trip all over the country to sell his idea, Congress was not sold on Wilson’s dream. That’s why he ‘suffered’ endless speeches and headaches, OH..what a courageous man!
To think that Berg’s article was NOT written to help to promote Obama’s recent trips around the country… you’d have to be a bit daft…..
Here’s an excerpt:
“Imagine a polarizing second term president so idealistic that he threw out the rule book, waging a battle with Congress that nearly killed him. In the middle of great economic inequality, when the nation’s richest 1 percent owned half its wealth, Wilson unveiled his presidential program, the “New Freedom.” It aimed to protect the less favored 99 percent of his countrymen. To that end he lost no time in creating the Federal Reserve Broad reducing excessive tariffs, reforming taxation” …etc…etc
You can almost feel Berg thinking of Obama with every word. It is one of the most glorifying articles you will ever read about a President. Why…Woodrow Wilson suffered from asthma, and was tarted around the country in a luxury train, poor fellow, and wore himself out promoting this League of Nations.
Obama, we see, is doing the same thing. He is campaigning the country saying that the Congress, those wicked evil men, have keep up phony distractions (IRS, Behjgnzi, Fast and Furious, NSA) keeping him from taking care of the middle class. Wait…it’s not HIS reponsiblitiy to take care of America, it’s CONGRESS. He is making sure that he is just an observer like all the rest of us.
Obama travels in much greater style than the 1919 train (The Mayflower) that Wilson had. Obama has Air Force One. And unlike Wilson, Obama can handpick his crowds to cheer him. (Republican students were turned away in Missouri last week. NOTE: Be sure to wear your love for Mao on your Tee-shirt when you go.)
There must be something to this traveling the country in your second term—-Nobody Remembers when George W. Bush traveled the country pleading to the nation to stare privatizing Social Security, in 2005.
In his 2005 State of the Union Address, Bush discussed the potential impending bankruptcy of the program and outlined his new program, which included partial privatization of the system, personal Social Security accounts, and options to permit Americans to divert a portion of their Social Security tax (FICA) into secured investments.[154] Democrats opposed the proposal to partially privatize the system.[154]
Bush embarked on a 60-day national tour, campaigning vigorously for his initiative in media events, known as the “Conversations on Social Security”, in an attempt to gain support from the general public.[155] Despite the energetic campaign, public support for the proposal declined[156] and the House Republican leadership decided not to put Social Security reform on the priority list for the remainder of their 2005 legislative agenda.[157] The proposal’s legislative prospects were further diminished by the political fallout from the Hurricane Katrina in the fall of 2005.[158] After the Democrats gained control of both houses of the Congress as a result of the 2006 midterm elections, the prospects of any further congressional action on the Bush proposal were dead for the remainder of his term in office.
On Thursday, George W. Bush said that he sees not reforming Social Security as his greatest failure from the 8 years he served.
Woodrow’s efforts cost him his life, for at the end of the trip, he suffered a stroke, but his democratic dream of a One World Governmental Body is now one of our biggest problems. The United Nations is filled with corruption, and Obama loves the place.
Mr. Berg see the comparison of Woodrow and Obama as equal in greatness…
And then there’s ….the rest of us.
I was telling a friend today, that the office of the Presidency has been granted too much power, and I thought it was time, we took all power away from the office. I could do with a powerless President right now…someone who just ‘represents” us and lives at the White House, and just gives out dinner parties and metals.
Someone who can’t fundamentally change our lives…because the only one who did us any good at all was Reagan. The rest of them since then, have been disasters.
But…people in hell want ice water…and that will never happen, because Woodrow Wilson decided America wasn’t enough for one President: They seem to be so busy running the rest of the world, they forget about us.
And isn’t it amazing that the old class envy ploy still works after all these years?
Maybe the Nobody’s of the Country should RENT a train and give some speeches of their own.
Nobody’s Perfect: Frightened Seniors
Nobody’s Perfect
If you watched the video (go ahead, the rest will make more sense) you have to ask yourself: why in the WORLD would anyone who has been on this planet for 81 years say such a terrible thing to a little boy?
What has she done with her life? And WHY in the world is she driving a bus at 81 years old? Obviously, this lady is scared. She should be scared of getting sick instead of Romney, because with Obamacare, if she needs any kind of heart surgery, or cancer treatment, she will just have to get off the bus of life and die.—Which some would say, would be sweet Karma.
So what is happening to some of our Seniors? You would THINK.. they would see Obama for what he is.
I ran into one of these “Seniors” today. She was behind me in the line at the grocery store. We both started putting up our items out of our carts, and as I was lifting my milk to put up on the counter, she said, “I can’t believe how much money food costs! it’s half of what I spend!”
She was dressed nice, with short white hair, a pretty face, and blue eyes that once upon a time, must have broken a few hearts.
I laughed and agreed with her. “I know, I spend a good portion of the paycheck on groceries, and there’s only two of us.” I said, as I slammed the 24 pack of “purified” water on the counter. I said I would never pay for “water” and yet, my husband is addicted to it, and now, so am I.
Americans…can sell you ANYTHING.
Having found an agreement with me..she continued, “Yes, things are bad, and when my husband died, his company went bankrupt and left me without any health insurance, and I’m now 93 years old!” But she had remarried when she was 72. Already, I was admiring this lady. I thought to myself, “The older people know…she must be a conservative, like me!”
The conversation continued as we both pulled our carts over to start our bagging.
“You know, I can remember when gas was 23cents a gallon. My son’s company moved overseas and at 50 he had to find another job. I have seen a lot in my lifetime.” she said. “And everything is so expensive these days. I feel so sorry for the younger generations.”
Having filled our baskets up, we both continued talking while getting our stuff to the car, which just happened to be parked next to one another.
“You know” I said. “Its so nice to talk to someone who sees the condition of the country, and you must be upset to see the changes that have happened.”
“Yes…you know the rich are going to get richer, and the poor will get poorer, and we will just be like all the other countries.”
And then she said, “You know…Romney keeps his money in the Cayman island!”
She could have thrown a watermelon at my head, and I wouldn’t have been more surprised.
I realized that this women…was actually scared—but not too bright. She had been told, by Obama, that all the things happening in her life were due to rich people trying to screw them, and so she was going to vote for Obama.
Sadly, the only thing I could say was, “I’d rather vote for a rich man, a Christian man, than vote for a Muslim. America, is a Christian country.”
I know, stupid. What can you say in 30 seconds to reeducate and soothe the fears of a person who has been brainwashed, and has no clue? You can’t.
Obama has literally repeated the same lies over and over and over…a point used by Hilter’s propaganda minster Goebbels.
Repeat a lie long enough, and it will become the truth. And for so many people, it has. Romeny is a rich, evil man.
And the lie continues.
Those 81 years olds…can barely get by. The dollar has been so devalued they have to keep working…like the rest of us, just to survive..And Obama has told them Romney wants their Social Security.
That is no excuse for telling some little boy he should have been aborted, but then again, that’s how the liberal minds works. Only the “left” should be allowed to live.
America….can sell you anything, especially if you scare them while you’re doing it.
And to many in that nation, they are selling… a madman.
Nobody’s Email: The REAL History of Social Security
Nobody Gets Email
Here’s an email I got a few days ago…it had a few surprises in it for me…it’s worth a quick read. I know, I thought it was very hard when I was a musician to have to pay double SS payments, because I was “self employed.” For people like musicians or Physical Trainers, or independent contractors, it can be brutal.
(Thanks to Pattie)
A History Lesson on Your Social Security Car—1934-1980
With the elections just a little over 3 months away you’ll soon be hearing some Democrats running for political office, warning how the Republicans want to take away the old people’s Social Security.
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this it’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat of Republican. Facts are facts:
Social Security Cards, issued in 1934, and up until the 1980’s expressly stated the number and that card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message, NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION, was removed.
When Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program, he promised:
1) That participation in the program would be completely voluntary,
No longer Voluntary
2) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the program.
Now 7.65% on the first $90,000 (Double for self-employed.)
3) That the money the participants elected to put into the program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year.
No longer tax deductible
4)That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other government program.
Under Johnson, another Democrat, the money was moved to the General Fund and spent.
5) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.
Under Clinton & Gore, Democrats, Up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxes.
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month–and then finding out that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ for us—you may be interested in the following—
Q: Which political party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the Democratically controlled House and Senate.
Q; Which political party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A. The Democratic Party.
Q. Which political party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A. The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the U.S.
Q. Which political party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A. Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.
Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65 began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Then after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take away your Social Security. And the worst part is: uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted.
Actions speak louder than bumper stickers.
Nobody Gets Email: The “Entitlement” Programs
Bernie Madoff’s Social Security Scheme
Nobody Gets Email
This email speaks for itself. We should all remember this when they talk about Social Security.
(Thanks to Tom Beebe)
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Why did Bernie Madoff go to prison? To make it simple, he talked people into investing with him. Trouble was, he didn’t invest their money. As time rolled on he simply took the money from the new investors to pay off the old investors. Finally there were too many old investors and not enough money from new investors coming in to keep the payments going.
Next thing you know, Madoff is one of the most hated men in America and he is off to jail. Some of you know this, but not enough of you. Madoff did to his investors what the government has been doing to us for over 70 years with Social Security. There is no meaningful difference between the two schemes, except that on was operated by a private individual who is now in jail, and the other is operated by politicians who enjoy perks, privileges and status in spite of their actions.
Do you need a side-by side comparison here? Well, here’s a nifty chart.
BERNIE MADOFF |
SOCIAL SECURITY |
1. Takes money from investors with the promise that the money will be invested and made available to them later. |
1. Takes money from wage earners with the promise that the money will |
2. Instead of investing the money Madoff spends it on nice homes in the Hamptons and yachts etc. |
2. Instead of depositing money in a Trust Fund the politicians transfer it to the ‘General Revenue Fund’ and use it for general spending and vote buying. |
3. When the time comes to pay the investors back Madoff simply uses some of the new funds from newer investors to pay back the older investors. |
3. When benefits for older investors become due the politicians pay them with money taken from younger and newer wage earners to pay the older people. |
4. When Madoff’s scheme is discovered all hell breaks loose. New |
4. When Social Security runs out of money the politicians try to force |
5. Bernie Madoff goes to jail; then who pays his medical, housing and |
5. Politicians remain in Washington… with fat medical and retirement benefits. |
The Taxpayer; That is someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.
“If you put the federal government in charge of the “Sahara Desert”, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”
–Milton Friedan
Pass this on to Another Taxpayer.