Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The Social Security Flim-Flam

No, it's not that Social Security is a flim-flam. It's that the Feds, both Democrat and Republican (mostly Republicans), have been using the Social Security Trust Fund to reduce the apparent size of the Federal deficit. It's not that Social security is broke, it's that the Feds have been borrowing from it, so what is really supposed to be a "trust fund" is really a huge series of notes that say "Dear Seniors, we owe you trillions of dollars. (signed) the Feds."

Which will all have to be paid back. so you young people, you have Reagan, Bush41 and Bush43 to thank for the fact that you are going to wind up paying higher taxes and getting piss-poor services in return.

And yes, if you are a pilot and you wonder why the Feds are so loath to spend the Aviation Trust Fund to upgrade the air traffic control system and why, despite having several billions in the Aviation Trust Fund, the Bushies keep trying to ram through user fees, same reason.

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