IT'S ONLY 3%

I am not averse to living on a tighter budget. I know I can do it. I still have money to eat out a couple times a month, see a movie, or buy a little something extra. I don’t feel poor or deprived. I have never believed life was fair or even that it should be fair. And I do not want to see something taken from one and given to another just to even the score. In other words, I do not hold to the political philosophy of an even distribution of wealth. I actually hold to a much more Biblical approach of meeting the needs of people.

I’m not sure when the government originally decided to take care of us all. I seems that a fair amount of it came to pass in the 30’s and 40’s. But whenever it happened, they have us now. We are told that Social Security was never meant to care for us in our old age. At least that is what they are saying today. But that is not my memory of what was said when I wanted to opt out of the program back in the 60’s.

I am not going to go back and whine about all their promises. I have done plenty of that and will likely do it again. But not today!

What I struggle with is the wealthy making the decision that I should receive less to help meet the national budget. Like I said, I am certainly willing to do without a little more. What I do want is for them to make the same decision for themselves. Today’s headlines suggest that congress is considering lowing seniors income by 3%. It’s not as clearly marked as that. They have some fancy bookwork to make it look better than that, but that is all gobbled gook. Since they have little doubt that we can manage on so much less, what reduction are they planning for themselves? The answer is none.

Two years ago when they decided to freeze Social Security for two years, congress voted them an increase in their pay. They needed more money. I don’t know why? They already have a pile of freebees including health care. I would do a lot better with free health care, but there are way to many of us. Health care is not for everyone. Got it.

Look gang, we made a very big mistake in the 40’s and 50’s. Too many of us decided to be born around the same time and now we are paying the price. Certainly our loving and kindly national leaders would never have mismanaged “our” money or borrowed from “our” fund to finance a teapot museum that was a dream of some local yokel. Neither would our benevolent leaders think of giving money to some enemy country while their own people were hurting. God bless you Pakistan. They love us way too much.

If you need my money take it. I might as well say that since you will do as you want anyway, but ask yourselves not what your senior citizens can do for you, but what can you also give up. And no, I will not vote for you again. It is not always some others states congressional leaders, it is each of our states.