I began my day with an article wherein Goldman Sachs CEO and war criminal Lloyd Blankfein argues that his subjects (he’s the Lord, the taxpayers are his reluctant subjects) will need to accept dramatic new reductions in the safety nets and other programs that they have already paid for. (Huff Post)
In case you have not recognized it, this nation and in fact this world is at war…and Lord Blankfein and his banker/Wall Street ilk are the enemy of The People. The banker class, along with the government they own, have decided how they will run this world and how they will order our lives. (we are all subjugates to their global economic order) They have decided what they will do with the fruits of our labor (confiscate then concentrate it among themselves) and they have decided what their government will do. (commit genocide, murder, subjugate the people) all to develop then perpetuate some dangerous and evolving new world order.
The question of course is what will be the series of events that trigger the most dramatic and violent aspects of the evolution that is coming. One has to come after all. We all accept this conversation of a fiscal cliff, but the talking classes are not yet talking about the necessary and inevitable side effects of Lord Blankfein and the members of his ruling class telling the Rest of Us who are paying his multi million dollar salary that we won’t be eating as much as we cared to….or that our children will not be receiving the medical care they need to survive.
Yes, at some point in time there will be a blow back. We see the first puffs of smoke from this coming war coming to us from the protests of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands in Greece and Spain. Or at least we would see those pictures if The Media, such as it is were actually showing us such pictures. But of course they are not. After all, did you see Mitt Romney pumping gasoline? And hey! A Kardashian sister ate another Kardashian sister.
What will everyday Amerikans do when their lifestyles become compromised or worse, when they are unable to meet their basic needs because the economic model blasted down upon them will not permit their families to thrive….or maybe even survive?
What will cops do when they realize that Lord Blankfein has stolen and pilfered their pensions? What will judges do when they too realize that their precious retirement accounts are delusions? Perhaps this realization will put into a bit more of a focus such questions as,
“What does it matter…..is your client paying his mortgage?”
And of course the answer must always be….
“But who shall he pay it to?”
Should he pay into a fundamentally corrupt and criminal system? And even though their court system (it really doesn’t make any sense to call it “our” court system anymore does it?) continues to affirm and confirm their corrupt enterprise do we not have some moral obligation to confront the illegitimacy of a system that has broken down? Indeed the court system that once was “ours” has become so desecrated that it has lost legitimacy among those who give it its power only through consent.
The clear and present danger is the threshold we have crossed….
The con job is even bigger and goes deeper than you and 99.9% of Americans believe. Even the HP guys along with Lloyd Blankfein are as dumb as a brick.
Most working Americans believe the monthly deductions from their paychecks legally entitle them to future Social Security benefits. Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth.
The media and the average American perpetuate the nonsense and argue,
” This isn’t a benefit ““ its earned income! I’ve worked hard my whole life. I’ve paid in thousands of dollars in Social Security taxes. Now I’m just collecting what I put in.”
Here’s the fact: You have no legal ” right” to collect back what you’ve paid into Social Security.In fact, the Supreme Court has already ruled that…Anyone Collecting Social Security Is Actually On Welfare!
In a case named Helvering v. Davis (1937), the Supreme Court ruled that Social Security was not a contributory insurance program.
Here’s how they put it (in true legalese): “The proceeds of both the employee and employer taxes are to be paid into the Treasury like any other internal revenue generally, and are not earmarked in any way.”
So again, I ask…why did anyone vote any of these clowns and how did these clowns use this knowledge above that you did not to play you for the idiot?
You do not ” accrue” any benefits. You are technically ” owed” nothing. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve paid in or how much you’ve paid.
Social Security is simply a payroll tax on one side and a welfare program on the other side.
Now understandably, some in Congress didn’t like the sound of that. Adding a new ” tax” in the middle of the Great Depression wasn’t the best way to get votes.
So in 1939 they amended the Social Security Act to create a formal trust fund. The amendment also ordered the Treasury department to submit an annual report on the status of the fund.
Because there is now a fund set up to formally ” earmark” the social security tax receipts, most people think Social Security is like a big government pension or insurance program.
Wrong again.
Just because Congress created a ” fund” to segregate Social Security from other collected taxes, the essence of the law never changed.
What held true in the Supreme Court ruling of 1937 is still true today.
Social Security is just another payroll tax. You don’t actually build up any ” equity” through your so-called ” contributions.”
Ephram Nestor came to the United States in 1918 from Bulgaria.
He paid Social Security taxes from 1936 (the year the system began operating) until he retired in 1955.
For his 19 years of payments into the ” system,” the U.S government rewarded Ephram with a $55.60 monthly Social Security check.
But a year later, the US Immigration Service deported Nestor for having been a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s.
In 1954 Congress had passed a law saying that any person deported from the United States would lose his Social Security benefits.
Based on that law, the US Treasury stopped sending Ephram Nestor his monthly Social Security check.
Nestor sued, claiming that because he had paid Social Security taxes, he had a right to Social Security benefits.
The Supreme Court disagreed.
Specifically, the Court ruled (in the case of Fleming v. Nestor) that workers have no legally binding contractual rights to their Social Security benefits.
The court went on to say that Social Security benefits are essentially a government welfare program that can be cut or even eliminated at any time.
The bottom line is this: your Social Security benefits are always subject to the whim of 535 politicians in Washington.
Doesn’t that make you feel ” secure?”