That's right I said it! Entitlements must die, they must be repealed if we are to save our country from collapse. The next Senator from the great state of Nevada is going to be a wonderful Conservative named Sharron Angle. Sharron is my kind of Conservative. She goes directly to the Constitution and there is no wavering with her. If it is not part of the Founders vision she is against it. She is one of the very few politicians I have ever heard say they want to abolish Social Security and Medicare. I couldn't agree more. Medicaid is not included and I'll tell you why shortly. The fact that she would state this publicly is unprecedented considering how the leftists from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama have convinced everyone that they can't live without them.

     Anyone that does not know what harm these entitlements pose to us will think I am an absolute radical. I don't care if people think that because it is time everyone faces reality. I have already accepted the fact that many Americans will not educate themselves and will vote for a populist message or a good looking candidate. The only reason these entitlements were implemented in the first place was because people like this didn't know any better. They didn't know that they would slowly become slaves to the state. The American people during the Great Depression were desperate. In that atmosphere they allowed Roosevelt to do virtually anything he wanted to do to rectify the situation or rather pacify the frightened electorate. He took advantage of his "crisis" and was able to saddle us with Social Security. 

     It is amazing how similar the 1930's and 2000's really are. Back then the press demonized business and the outgoing president Herbert Hoover. Labor unions were strong, influential, and in bed with the leftist democrats. The new president Roosevelt promised the world and an end to the Depression. Sounds eerily familiar doesn't it. Another example of history repeating itself when it is forgotten and ignored. Well, today is different. We have instant information and we are more informed than ever. The left needs an ignorant people in order to be successful. Americans like you and I are going to be the ants at their picnic. We are teaching people the right way, the Founding Fathers' way. 

     The same results we are getting now from Obama is what Americans in 1933 received from Roosevelt. Lots of grandiose talk and public projects but failure in the end. Roosevelt never did rescue America from the Great Depression and anyone that tells you he did is either ignorant of the facts, or is lying to you. In fact, the Depression got worse as time went on. Roosevelt exploded the debt, but Obama is taking it to levels that might be un-recoverable. The pundits now talk about a double dip recession, but back then there were alot of dips. The economy didn't start to recover fully from the depression until after 1946. This is after the war, and after Roosevelt's death.  

     The 1930's were bad but the war years in the 1940's were worse. The war was convenient for Roosevelt in the sense that the economy was obviously secondary to the war effort. The year 1946 is significant because it was in that year that the new president Harry Truman cut taxes. This move instantly spurred business and created jobs for returning servicemen. You can look back in history and see the worst of times in the American economy and there is always a democrat making it worse. By contrast you see the best of times in American history, which the 1950's definitely were, and there is less government with tax cuts across the board.

     It was in the leftist manufactured Great Depression as I said earlier, that Roosevelt was able to muscle through socialist policies like Social Security that haunt us to this day. "But Michael, why is Social Security so bad?" Social Security is bad because it is a fake, a shell game, a Ponzi scheme, whatever you want to call it. Social Security takes from the working to pay for the receiving. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. It's wealth redistribution right under your nose. When you get your yearly Social Security report, compare the number you will be receiving per month when you retire with the number taken out of your check per month. It isn't possible for the government to sustain paying more and receiving less. What the government promises they can never deliver. This is why the national debt is 13 trillion dollars now. 

     Think of it like this. Your parents, whatever age, have paid into Social Security their entire lives. Say your dad is 65 and started working at 20. That means he started paying into the system in 1965. Well, if you haven't checked, inflation has gone up quite a bit since then. A 1965 dollar your father paid in then, doesn't buy now, what it did in 1965. The government has to pay you more than you paid in. Otherwise people would want to riot because the amount you received wouldn't cut it in today's economy. It would be a minuscule amount per month compared to what you really get. The leftists hook everyone with this scheme because in the end you are getting money for nothing. There is no "lock box" for Social Security and there never was. Social Security is just another tax. In the first years of Social Security there was a surplus because people had not started collecting yet, but as soon as retirees started drawing checks the two ends have been coming together. Now in 2010, Social Security is paying out more than it takes in and this is before the "baby boomer" generation retires en masse.

     Just like Obamacare, Social Security is another way to get people subservient and dependent on the federal government. The people of America must realize that the more the government takes care of you, the more they control you, and the worse your life will get. I cannot stress this more urgently. When you let someone that doesn't love you have control of the most intimate decisions of your life, (health and retirement, with more to come) you are not going to like the end result. There are certain powers laid out in the Constitution for the federal government to retain, but since the early 1900's those powers have slowly expanded into the monster government that we now fight. Social Security is breaking Constitutional law every day that it exists. The Founding Fathers would never have condoned entitlements or wealth redistribution. They knew it was certain failure.

     Anytime there are people dependent on the government for their livelihood there is an absolute collapse of that community. Free government money drains people of their ambition to achieve anything. Morality, education, health, and family structure are destroyed when the government becomes the provider. The American Indians have been devastated by government handouts as well as Black Americans. Where there is a ghetto there are government checks. If the leftists had their way we would all be equally devastated. What does this have to do with Social Security? Social Security is different in that unlike welfare you pay into it. But like welfare you are at the mercy of the government to pay. It is another form of dependent slavery to the government. Everyone expects to have a retirement check from the government when they retire. What would you do if that check did not, or could not come? Alot of people would be working until they died. If you were forced by necessity to cover your own retirement like before the 1930's, you would pay more attention to the details.  

     It is criminal to me that we are forced to pay an extra tax for something that probably will not be there at our retirement. I want my money back so that I can invest it, save it, buy gold, or whatever I want to do with it. I know I could make more from it in the private sector. The government doesn't invest your money. The government also doesn't produce anything at all to make money. The money they have is taken from us. We cannot allow the leftists to create more entitlements to further make us slaves to the "company store". The next step for them is to nationalize industry so that profits go to the treasury and not to share holders or employees. Then they will seize all private property for the good of the state. "Yeah sure Michael, like that will ever happen here, this is America." Read history if you don't believe me. Or better yet read Saul Alinsky, the intellectual God to the hardened leftists like our current president. They don't hide their intentions.

     The first step to ending this madness is to stop their march to communism by educating people and winning elections. Only then can we begin to undue the institutional damage they have already done and force the government back to the Constitutional boundaries. As for ending Social Security, I believe the only way to stop it is to end the mandate that everyone is automatically enrolled. The people that have paid in will have the option to recoup the money they paid in or continue on and receive benefits. No new enrollees will be allowed after a certain date so as to close the program as soon as the last recipient has passed. If the federal government would leave all of us alone and let us keep our hard earned money we could invest in robust businesses that would pay us a whole lot more.

     Medicare is the same thing but worse off than Social Security. If we could all buy insurance across the country and get competition involved it would be inexpensive enough so as to not warrant needing a handout from Washington. The same principles apply here as they do with Social Security. Medicaid I believe should remain, but it should be provided on the state level as per the 10th Amendment (states rights) and have nothing to do with the federal government. Medicaid is the only government hand out there should be because there are times that people are truly indigent and it is not a permanent entitlement to be used throughout life.

     The future of our country depends on everyone understanding these points. We must end all entitlements at the federal level and recall the Founders vision to restore our country to it's greatness.