SS and MC can never achieve self-funding and were always meant to go broke someday.  People are inherently lazy, apathetic, and greedy.  People in power are heartless, egotistical, and selfish.  That combination cannot produce the results those programs imagine.  All it can do is delay the inevitable - war, new masters...more

I call BS!  Re:  "The main reason for the accelerated timelines is the sluggish economy and high unemployment." Those are symptoms, not causes.  The designers of the Medicare and Social Security systems, like all socialists, see the world through rose-colored glasses.  Any idiot would understand that all economies s...more

In the history of mankind, every society has been ruled by one of three types of governments.  They are either dominated by a religion, a personality cult, or by greed.  Of the three, I vote for greed every time - it's certain and predictable.  You can trace everything back to the money. Liberals vote for personalit...more

What good does it do to fine Barclay's $450m if the money just goes to some government agency that flushes it down the drain of $16Trillion in debt?  Why do government agencies get fine money?  That means just less money is available to pay victims. It seems to me that the government are thieves just like the banks.

I used to worry about ID theft.  But then, I also used to try to make money and pay taxes.  Now, I've embraced the Obama lifestyle and quit trying.  Work as little as possible.  Pay no taxes.  Collect unemployment, food stamps, welfare.  Now free healthcare!! Life is GREAT!  I only have a Visa debit card and lousy c...more