Is Social Security on Your 2016 Checklist?

Pudgy’s Mom,

With all do respect you are wrong. Initially, I do shopping at the grocery store every week. Have prices gone up, yes they have, but some prices have gone down. My grocery bill each week has not moved that much–up or down. Maybe you are talking buying all upscale items. I have resisted that as perhaps you should. There are a lot of alternative foods you might buy and enjoy.

Obama did not take food and fuel out of the CPI. That was dfone de3cades before and the CPI is still calculated in both forms and available to the public on a monthly basis–one with food and energy and fuel. and one with all components in it. You will be surprised because obviously apparently you do not check either survey the CPI without fuel and food is almost the same as the other survey. Get some facts.

Your next statement is that drug costs are going through the roof. It has nothing to do with Obama. George W. Bush pushed through Part D of medicare which was a cave in to the pharmaceutical industry in the US. Many countries negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies and citizens pay a lower rate for medicines that we in the US do. The US does not because of what Mr. Bush decided to do with Part D. .We pay the highest rates for medicines in the world generally because of politics which you may support. Suggest that you go to Canada or Mexico and see what you would pay for the same medicines you buy in the US.

You seem to love SS and hate it. SS is not a retirement program which you seem to think. It is an assistance to anyone who has paid into the system, but that is all. If you and your spouse decided not to plan for retirement with other investments, that is unfortunate. I think I may be older than you are and I am still paying into SS. Ripoff–you are sadly mistaken.

Next what are you talking about Obama moving census into the White House is nonsensical. The Census Bureau has been apart of the Commerce Department almost forever and is today. Are you saying that Obama is running the Census Bureau directly from the White House? Absurd. It also has nothing to do with what you said earlier. How does the Census bureau affect you? Just explain.

Lastly, you say Americans must do the math. You seem to say that managing your own retirement funds which are given to SS is a better way to go., I suggest that you go to Morningstar, a company that monitors all the mutual funds managed by professional managers, and look at its evaluations of the effectiveness of professional managers. It is not pretty. But maybe you and your spouse, if any, think that you can beat the market. If you are worried about SS and groceries, I doubt you have the ability to achieve anything close to SS. But if you want that opportunity, reach for it, Just do not come back and complain to the rest of us.

Pudgy’s Mom,
If we had honest politicians, [ I do believe that’s an oxymoron ] but the fact we use ethanol which would cost twice as much if it wasn’t so heavily subsidized to make it seem like we are doing something when we are sitting on enough energy right now never to pay those taxes that give the impression they are helping out the country. Here’s the deal. I actually went to a grocery store and looked at so many products and It was a task to find something that didn’t have high-fructose corn syrup in it. Because we use so much corn to make ethanol, then subsidize it with taxes to make it even remotely competitive with regular gas or even natural gas is helping one group of people. Corporate farmers like Monsanto. They make so much selling corn that we pay more for it at the pump and it has more water in it which is bad on your engine. Then food prices have either exploded or it’s the same price with a smaller amount in the can or box. We don’t have a infrastructure yet for natural gas, but it is already happening on trucks and interstates do have natural gas. What we do have on Natural gas is companies if you are in a part of the country like I am in this sad sorry state who gave you Obama. DAY 1 he should have approved the Keystone pipeline because even though we have plenty, the more in the pipeline the lower the price of anything goes. This horrendous bill that just added 1.1 trillion more dollars to my kids and grand kids debt is going to bring more [ 10,000 plus “Syrian Trojan Horse Refugee’s” ] on the shores that used to protect us from most of this stuff. No we pay their way and are told, “that’s not who we are. We are a nation of immigrants. Many of these are women and children.” Well we already had Major Hidal or Nidal opening fire on our soldiers while in a mess hall while yelling al-akbar yet our soldiers weren’t even allowed to carry a firearm on base. Then we have the Boston Bombers. Then we had San Bernardino where I had a friend out west as they were being shot and completely defenseless. Thirteen of those people who just lived their lives as regular people obeyed the law and are now dead. A few who voted for anti- conceal carry candidates are now getting firearms as I am along wit my five sons, my pastor and his two sons. So we have all these people making decisions that we are supposed to make at the ballot box. And we did make our choices and they buckled or Obama must have pictures of them in compromising positions because that Muslim Communist, [remember I’m from Chicago so I know all about Bill Ayars and his first meeting where we had a convicted felon telling the future president of the U.S. of A how to do it. Bill and Bernadine Dorhn say their only regret is they didn’t blow up more federal buildings. Then he became a professor at University of Illinois at Chicago campus for 30 years teaching Marxist doctrine’s and people all wonder what happened to America? They DO NOT TEACH CIVIC’S ANYMORE and we are an experiment in self government. If you don’t vote and get connected with a group like the Senate’s Conservative Fund where a good man left the senate because he couldn’t get anywhere so he created an organization to do the “leg work ” on what a candidate says and compares that to their voting record. We have college students who have no clue how long a congressmen’s term is let alone who they are. That is a problem because when we don’t vote it tells the establishment one of two things, or both. One, you are happy with them and the job they are doing. Or two, you don’t care enough to vote. I am pissed! I worked hard because I was told if we got if we got them elected they wouldn’t spend all this money we print out of thin air, or borrow what we can’t even pay the interest on. They did the right thing kicking Boehner out but I was screaming when they replaced him with a younger version. And Obama has passed so much stuff by executive order that could have been stopped. That’s why we have three co-equal branched of government. But the problem is we don’t have politicians like the founders who went to serve their country for a couple years and then went home to work the farm. WE have guys that promise the world if you give to their campaign and spend millions for a job that pays a couple hundred thousand a year. And even if you only serve a two year term, you have a pension for life, you vote yourself a pay raise, you are not a part of Obaminationcare, and even though we have a second amendment they want to take away, they all have armed body guards! We have to stop things like go to the FAIRTAX.COM because even though a flat tax is better than what we have, people who aren’t tax paying citizens get all the benefits we all have paid into. INCLUDING SOCIAL SECURITY. Back to that California thing. If we couldn’t properly vet the mom, dad, and daughter, and let the man she met online into the country to get married, [ so much for women won’t blow themselves up per Obama’s own words ] Fairtax is absolutely the best way. You eliminate all deductions. You get 100% of your MONEY. If you are rich because you worked hard, or inherited it, who cares? The more you spend the more you pay in taxes. If you cheat you won’t be able to now. If you are illegal, you still need food and clothes so people that aren’t even in the system contribute. You also catch tax cheats because, again, you pay at the point of sale. I own a flooring company and have the 5 knee surgeries to prove it, the failed double fusion in my neck, open heart for a leaking valve. I am going to be 52 in April. I am the very last year of the baby boomers. 1964. Whatever you believe about God or not, it is an undeniable fact that our system of laws are based on Judeo/Christian principle’s. How can we as the bumper sticker says, COEXIST with all the letters the symbol if that religion. Islam isn’t coming here for a better life. Ask the Chicago dad who ran his daughter down with the family car for becoming, “too Americanized.” That sound like someone who plans on “assimilating?” In WW-2 when 2400 approximately were killed Roosevelt interned Japanese and to a lessor extent Germans and Italians. Obama wants and is going to “resettle Syrians” here and to me that is like letting the fox in the hen house. I have been doing some homework on Islam. It is in fact unlike the bible, which is 66 books, written by numerous authors over thousands of years. The Q’uran is written by one man in one life time and it does start out as a peaceful religion but Mo-ham and Bacon said, whenever you come across a contradiction, go with the later teaching. [ Allah makes mistakes? ] They are in our prison system recruiting people and these were in Chicago anyway, where even though I was born there, I am 30 minutes away and a man walking distance from my house with my bad knees is easy. But a man tried to call his pops and just say hi. He didn’t answer. He tried again the next day. No answer. He tried the third and got no answer so he jumped int his car and drove out here and his father was already severely decomposing. I moved away to get away from that craziness and here it is in my neighborhood . Thank God he had a rap sheet and left finger prints behind and was caught. So again, how are we ever going to get out of debt and get functioning again? Fairtax, use real energy of ALL varieties, lower the highest corporate tax rate in the world and instead of exporting McDonald’s we will be importing manufacturing jobs. Raising the minimum wage would be the absolute wrong thing to do. I already know of a guy who has out in a kiosk to place your order which is better than raising your price, the order id right all of the time, there is a plant making then somewhere, there is an installer somewhere and a serviceman somewhere too. All will make well above $15 bucks an hour! I asked my sister about this who sold her mom and pop pizza place when she had to divorce from an abusive husband what she would have done. She said the teenagers would call in sick or just quit on a Friday or Saturday night because there was a party and it would kill her on the busiest nights of the week and would do it on a 90 degree day when those ovens made it feel like a 190! She said she would either have to work that hard to keep her prices where regular folks could make it or raise prices on long time customers where that was a major expense and like flooring as I am in, the people sitting on the bubble get screwed and have to go out with their traditional treat or a new floor because, get this, I don’t care if you walk on plywood which I actually did for years when my dad added on an addition which my stained the plywood [ a petrochemical ]and mom through a piece of carpet over the middle which wasn’t stained. I don’t know you but I rabbit trail all over the place because we will always be the best person to handle the money we earned or paid into to receive. Fairtax you keep all of the money you have coming and eliminates the IRS. I as a shop owner would be responsible for explaining to a smaller organization for why I haven’t paid taxes ion purchases I made but are not in inventory. It could be as simple as we sent it back because of a defect. It happens all the time. Lower the corporate tax rate because ours is the highest in the world. Use our own Natural Resources and for the first time in 40 years we can finally sell American energy to our allies which is huge because Russia had Europe a choke hold.Open up the Keystone pipeline and stop believing this nonsense called first global warming, them climate change, and when it was obvious a lie, they call it now climate JUSTICE! Countries like us who are drowning in energy will be forced to give it to poor countries. [ I guess because they could never get to our standard of living, they wanted to even the playing field. If we don’t have enough energy to run our factories, we can buy back OUR ENERGY which now adds a cost to a product when we already have a problem competing with countries who use next to slave labor and now with our higher wages, we will have higher fuel costs too now. So stop the UN from dictating to us what to do even with coal. The U.N. already mandated America has to cut down on carbon emissions. China has until 2030 to start on this so how can we compete? Fracking who my buddy now works in the industry that is so regulated because they drill trough aquifiers . This one really bothers me. My father in law was in the plumbing and sewer business. He has lit many faucets on fire that the earths platelets moved as and gas escaped. I have also seen people up in Alaska cut holes in a lakes ice and trow a match at the hole and walla! a flame shoots up,. All trapped and wasted gas.
The fracking industry has been doing this for 50 years. He said that the “chemicals” people use to scare us with are things from the food industry and we consume most everyday. It is all about the money again.Does it bother you that we are leaving a country for the first time in our history that is word off than the pone we were given? Just ask me a question because after a year off because if a severe failure in my neck surgery I was trying to find out why my country was artificially lowering prices to help large lobbyist’s keep the status quo. There is so many I can explain. I have business coaches as example a man named Jeff Hoffman who started Priceline.com, he also started Expedia with Bill Gates. Anytime any one flies anywhere n the world and use a kiosk, he gets paid because that is HIS INVENTION. But to fix the problem with a congress who has the power of the purse, go to conventionofstates.com because the founders even thought of that. But remember this and think what you want to. Wa were America’s most prosperous years? The Baby Boomer years and this is just the way it is. After WW-2, we took a couple years to get back to peace time production. But in 1948, against the Joint Chief’s of Staff’s recommendations, Harry Truman, helped Israel become a state again after being taken from their lands as slaves by the Egyptians. Harry had a partner in his business of fine men’s clothing before entering politic’s. He was a Jewish man so Harry helped Golda Meir become the first Prime Minister of Israel. from then all the way to 1963, we were the superpower of epic proportions. There was a time people wouldn’t buy a Japanese car because they were so bad. but in 1963 we legislated God out of schools. I saw a crime chart after that and there wasn’t a single category where did not explode in crime rates. So during the years when we helped Israel or BLESS them if you will, we were an economic powerhouse and because we always stood by Israel, we were always a blessed nation. We were blessed in every way. We started a fast decline in 1963 and no we can’t go back to that because we would have to accommodate all of these other religions. So think back to the mid to late 60’s. It was the “tune and tune out generation of hippies.” The 70’s we saw what I call throw away cars because 60 or 70,000 miles and they were so rusted out, they were junk. My friends father actually stated Ziebart and whenever you went to buy a car, they would try and up sell you with this kind of product . But now we have Barack Obama following to a “T” Saul Alinky’s”Rules fir Radicals.” A book on how to destroy a capitalist economy. I even saw a old newspaper ad during the FDR administration were they showed a real deviant looking person writing down how to destroy a capitalist economy when it has lifted more people out of poverty than any other.So it said first to make them dependent on the government with healthcare, retirement savings, and to spend us into oblivion. All have happened. It also says to disarm the populace so they cannot resist. Most of all I know what God’s word has to say about it. “Those who bless Israel will be blessed. Those who curse Israel will be cursed.” I’ll be darned if that is not what is happening.
.God Bless and have a Happy New Year!