Thoughts on Social Security
If the crisis is as serious as it sounds on the TV news where anchors are sounding like your Aunt Eunice explaining that your Great Uncle Hal no longer recognizes people and Jesus is soon coming to get him, then lets not dick around. A risky scheme like having young people?! select investment options?! What if they select Mary Kate and Ashley as their investment counselors? What if they place 2% of the GDP in Spring Break Bonds? What if the system is still floundering when I retire and Wall Street has managed to misplace all the new money it got just like it misplaced my 401K money recently? It all went the way of a doobie at a Linkin Park concert.
We can't fool around with a serious adversarial threat to the one social insurance plan that has provided a public good for everyone who doesn't want to have to come home at the end of a long day pleasing the boss to find their elder kin Living In Their House and Eating Their Food and Needing Spongebaths because they are too old, too poor and have no where else to go. This was the life our forefathers had in their sweet prime and when some brainiacs figured out the tables of how much would have to be deducted to provide benefits for workers in old age they said, "Hallelujah." Thus, a successful experiment in government doing something governments are actually supposed to do was born.
If this is such a serious crisis than sometimes a man has got to do what a man has got to do and, moreover, make his wife do it too. We need to give back our tax cuts (if we are rich) and insist on removing the cap on FICA taxes for all hepcats earning over $87K and it is done. Slick as a whistle. The insolvency beast will curl in rage and agony as the flames lick its scaly hide and it will plunge back into the dark jungle of our subconsious. There will be plenty of surpluses for the young when they retire (if they ever manage to find a job). And the government will have to find some way of paying for all the treasuries it issued when it was borrowing the money "just 'til my next payday." C'mon, U.S. Government, you are not gonna make excuses when it is time to redeem that 3 trillion or so are ya? You are going to be a man and pay up. Don't you think of playing me some three card monte schtick. I ain't playing around, and neither should any of us about such a grave, serious crisis such as this Social Security thing.
We can't fool around with a serious adversarial threat to the one social insurance plan that has provided a public good for everyone who doesn't want to have to come home at the end of a long day pleasing the boss to find their elder kin Living In Their House and Eating Their Food and Needing Spongebaths because they are too old, too poor and have no where else to go. This was the life our forefathers had in their sweet prime and when some brainiacs figured out the tables of how much would have to be deducted to provide benefits for workers in old age they said, "Hallelujah." Thus, a successful experiment in government doing something governments are actually supposed to do was born.
If this is such a serious crisis than sometimes a man has got to do what a man has got to do and, moreover, make his wife do it too. We need to give back our tax cuts (if we are rich) and insist on removing the cap on FICA taxes for all hepcats earning over $87K and it is done. Slick as a whistle. The insolvency beast will curl in rage and agony as the flames lick its scaly hide and it will plunge back into the dark jungle of our subconsious. There will be plenty of surpluses for the young when they retire (if they ever manage to find a job). And the government will have to find some way of paying for all the treasuries it issued when it was borrowing the money "just 'til my next payday." C'mon, U.S. Government, you are not gonna make excuses when it is time to redeem that 3 trillion or so are ya? You are going to be a man and pay up. Don't you think of playing me some three card monte schtick. I ain't playing around, and neither should any of us about such a grave, serious crisis such as this Social Security thing.
posted by obelus at 1/12/2005 06:03:00 PM
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