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Today, I received an e-mail from a retired Air Force Colonel. It contains a letter from a lady named Patty Meyers. I checked it with Snopes, and they declare it Mixed. The reason it is mixed is because they cannot attribute all the statements to Patty Meyers. What that tells me is that Snopes wants to discredit this piece because it highlights problems created by Liberals. The letter refers to the last time Congress had to bail out Social Security several years ago. The problem is relevant again because the fix of kicking the can down the road has caused us to reach the can again. The root cause of this problem stems from the Democrat President Lyndon Johnson who asked Congress to remove Social Security from it’s trust fund protection  and to put the fund into the general budget. His argument was that his Great Society could benefit by the infusion of cash, and the government would make good on the money it was now borrowing from Social Security. Well folks, good old Lyndon is long dead and the Congress that voted this plan into law is also gone except for a few of the career guys like Alan Simpson who voted for the changes. The simple fact is that your Social Security comes from your paycheck and your employer contributes an equal amount. The money funnels into the general fund and Congress spends it on their generous social programs that benefit.

It is real easy to give away other peoples money which is what Congress does for a living. The problem is that they spend it faster than you give it to them, and with millions baby boomers retiring Uncle is in a lot of trouble. I will wager that if someday they eliminate Social Security payments they will continue to withdraw money from your check.

Alan Simpson currently works for President Obama on a special commission to propose ways to reduce the federal deficit.

Read the letter below, you will laugh cry and get angry all at the same time.  You may also begin to understand why Donald Trump is doing well in the primaries.

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Alan Simpson, the former Senator from Wyoming, calls senior citizens the ‘Greediest Generation’ as he compared “Social Security” to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats.

Here’s a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana … I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!
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Hey, Alan, let’s get a few things straight!!!!!

1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS.

2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).

3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in ‘an interest bearing account’ for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.

4. Recently, just like Lucy and Charlie Brown, you and “your ilk” pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and
moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age 67. NOW, you and your “shill commission” are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.

5.  I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from day one, and now “you” propose to change the rules of the game.
Why? Because “you” mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills.

6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you “incompetents” spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt. To add insult to injury, you label us “greedy” for calling “bullshit” to your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU:

1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?

2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?

3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?

4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and
your political cronies?

5. It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the “greedy” ones.

6. It is you and your fellow thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes, your job and retirement security at our expense.

7. That’s right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.

8. And you can take that to the bank.

NO, I did not stutter.
P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits “entitlements”. WHAT AN INSULT! I
have been paying into the SS system for 48 years. It’s my money give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly checks.

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