Social Security, A Critique

Social Security – a critique
Back in about 1950, my dad took me to the Elkhart County Home (on Rt 45 near CR 17). Virtually all the people there were 60-90, and just waiting for the grim reaper. Those were people who couldn't make a living, and they didn't have any assets put away for the "retirement" years. They couldn't pay rent, and they couldn't afford food. Those people were skinny, glum, depressed, and pathetic. They didn't have any hope. Many were embarrassed and they seemed to have given up. They had lost their dignity. The "guests" at the Elkhart County Home were people who failed to provide for themselves through ignorance, laziness, or unfortunate circumstances (I'll call them the ILUs). The county apparently set aside a budget for maintaining this big home, and it provided food. I'll bet the food was good! I didn't see the sleeping quarters, but I suspect they were dorm rooms with cots. The county basically prevented people from dying of starving and exposure. I suppose some basic cheap medicines were available, but I'm sure high dollar treatments were not in the budget. There must have been lots of counties that didn’t take humanitarian steps.

I'll concede that the introduction of the nationwide Social Security system provided a humane way to prevent the ILUs’ premature death due to starving and exposure, and I'll give it credit for a good try. But, a country with the collective ability to "think" and "prosper" and become the most technologically advanced quality of life country ever to exist, let at least two generations of power mad "liberal" hucksters mask the real answer to the ILU problem. The hucksters succeeded in creating a huge block of dependent lemmings in order to shuck their voting power. Our ability to solve the real problem apparently hasn't taken hold in the halls of national leadership yet. And, it won't until the liberal hucksters and their support machine (big elite media, big elite universities, big elite Hollywood, little neurotic educators and environmentalists) get their elitist, neurotic masks pulled off and exposed to some sunshine.

The solution to the ILU problem lies in the fundamentals. My 5th grade basketball coach used to tell us to work on the fundamentals, and (only then) everything else could build from there. He was right. We know what the fundamentals are, and they are basically everything the liberals are afraid of. The fundamentals were eloquently put by a wise organization a hundred years ago:

”Be prepared, Do a good turn daily, Be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent”. (And, I’ve learned this): Think long range, invest in your own future, don't waste, and take advantage of every learning initiative. Be a producer, not a user.

Our Constitution was written by men of extraordinary vision as a document based on fundamental principles like the ones I listed. It honors forthrightness, truth, character, and the rule of law. The elitists are above all that, and for them, "power" trumps everything else. Liberals are really elitists who think we're still small-minded lemmings living in the old west, where success comes from stealing, pimping, cheating, and lying.

But, this isn't the old west. The silver bullet lies within the creative minds of Boy Scouts and Lone Rangers and Tontos and us...........Scarpacci T.B.