Sid in the City

Sid in the City

The Social Security 'Trust' Fund

What happened to trusting a Trust Fund?

Government budgets used to be in millions, then billions, and now trillions.
The national debt too went from millions to billions to trillions.
Social Security, we were told, kept pace with the escalation,
as more and more workers paid into it.
The fund grew from millions to billions to trillions.
$2.6 trillion, to be exact.

There have been rumors in the past few years that the fund would
run out of money. Not today, not tomorrow, but maybe in 20 years or so.
The reason? Baby Boomers. Too many were retiring.
Too many expecting to withdraw money from the fund they'd paid into.

So what to do?
Make them work longer?
Start killing them off?
As it turns out, neither option would make any difference.
Why? Because the money isn't really there...
It's just gone, stolen.
Is that too harsh a word?
How about borrowed?
The whole $2.6 trillion has been used by various
government agencies to fund, or bail out, other projects.

For those of you pointing at Obama, shouting "Off with his head!",
you might consider this. The looting has been going on for decades.
Republican administrations, and Democratic ones too,
have all been complicit in carving up that pie.

Trust Funds, supposedly, are untouchable.
The very word 'trust' is defined like this in the dictionary:

1. reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc.,
of a person or thing; confidence.
2. confident expectation of something; hope.
3. confidence in the certainty of future payment for property
or goods received; credit: to sell merchandise on trust.

Is there anyone out there who still believes
you can trust 'any' politician?
Anyone?
Anyone at all?



News Link - Where did the money go?

Pakistan

Who's your buddy... who's your pal...

It took a long time to find Osama Bin Laden,
far too long most would say.
It does complicate things though,
when the guy you're looking for,
is being helped out by one of your 'allies'.

Pakistan, the world now knows, was harboring Bin Laden.
That's a fact, despite on going denials.
These are our buddies, these are our pals,
in the so-called War on Terror.

That's why we spend billions to keep their
country propped up. Basically a bribe to
keep them on 'our' side.

We cut the aid off when they began to play with
nukes, as shown in the chart below, but then we
opened the cash vault again right after 9/11,
and just recently tripled the amount we send.



The payoff for billions upon billions sent their way?
Not only did they hide Bin Laden for years,
they actually arrested the few Pakistanis
who helped us find him.

Local informants who worked with the CIA
in pinpointing Bin Laden's safe house,
have been rounded up, one by one,
in the past few weeks, and are being
held in Pakistani jails.

Call us naive, or ignorant of foreign affairs,
but maybe some of that money
could be used here at home.



News Link - Pakistan jails Bin Laden informants

Weiner's weiner

WeinerGate has Weiner taking 'The Cure'



News Link - Weiner Opts For treatment

The Rapture

The End Is Here!

Oops... we woke up this morning...
Did you?



News Link - The Rapture Is Coming

Bin Laden's Porn Stash

A few holes in the image of the Holy Man

Ok, so very few in the west considered
Bin Laden to be, uhm... 'holy',
but to believers of Jihad, the goal is
to kill Infidels, so in their eyes he qualified.

Now, we're not students of the Koran,
but we're kind of thinking that porn
isn't specifically prescribed as a
path to eternal life in heaven.

And three wives, in the compound?
That wasn't enough?
Seems the Prophet was just a
plain old Perv...



News Link - Hideout held extensive porn collection

Happy Mother's Day

To all you Mothers out there...