NOW YOU SEE IT -- NOW YOU DON'T -- Just A Minute Radio for Friday 04-10-09

            Howdy everyone – IT’S FRIDAY!  Paul Harvey lingers on~~~

 

            Very definitely do I remember in the summer of 1947 – when at my Father’s suggestion and his going to bat for me, I got my first *real* job… digging post holes and manholes for a neighbor who was foreman on a electrical line crew. It was hot, and dirty and I learned a lot!

 

            It also marked when I first saw government taxes being taken out of the forty-five cents an hour I was being paid – or was *supposed* to be paid. It was Social Security deductions. Well… I paid and thought little about it and didn’t realize my employer was kicking in the same amount to what I thought was just a government rat-hole.

 

            Now, I have to admit… I think it could have been done better and lest costly or wasteful – but I’m glad somebody forced me to lay something away for a rainy day. Now that I’m well past three score and ten… the rainy days are here… It’s not perfect, but it’s better than I had hoped. And almost every election somebody is wanting to tinker around with it – usually to the detriment of future generations and reduction of individual responsibility – so I’m more careful with what I say.

 

            One of the things we need to be aware of is irresponsible or possibly evil people keep looking to diminish our freedoms for expansion of their power. That’s what our forefathers called ‘eternal vigilance’ – and they well said… it’s the price of liberty. Let’s not forget it.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

           

            Jack

 

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NOW YOU SEE IT – NOW YOU DON’T

JUST A MINUTE – Only two problems have occurred with the Social Security Trust Fund -- “No trust – no fund.” But economist Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute says the surpluses that used to kick into the ‘imaginary trust fund’ are now absent. Hassett says – more money is paid out than taken in. Any budgeter knows fewer people working means … payroll taxes are down … OK… we’ll hit red ink about ten years ahead of schedule and bingo -- even Mr. Obama’s own budget shows an eight billion dollar gap between income and outgo. That’s bad!

Steve Goss, at Social Security says: count the interest the Feds owe the fund -- that'll keep the system “in the black for several years.” OK -- but what then?

Jim DeMint, our Senator from South Carolina, has a bill to stop the shenanigans – it’ll hold the government responsible to pay real debtors (the public) rather than throw good money after bad – problem is will the President buy it? Don’t hold your breath.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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