It is the weekend…..take a break from the mundane…….and now….for something completely different!

Ranting and Raving…the last refuge of a tired political observer……and anyone that spends any amount of time on Info Ink will know how I feel about Social Security…..and daily we hear from both parties that entitlements will be cut….entitlements?  That implies something that I feel I am demanding for nothing…..SS is NOT that…it is the basic retirement fund of millions of Americans that have been paying into it for decades…….and that the fund will be broke by 2037…..well first of all, it would NOT be broke if we had NOT allowed our politicians to steal from it to pay for other programs….and second, at current income it will be broke……AT CURRENT INCOME….if you believe that then you are believing that the country will NEVER recovery from this recession…….

Beyond that…..all the media pundits that jump all over SS, both media and political, say that it is a necessary evil…..to that I said CRAP!  It is all too easy to bad mouth the system when one is pulling down 6 or 7 figure salaries…..these people have NO idea what is going on in the middle of the country, regardless of the lip service they do…..

SS is the only retirement that most Americans have….why?  Try juggling college, new house, new car raising food and other conditions and then tell me how much is left over for your retirement if it were NOT for SS…….

I issue a challenge to these people……let say $1000 a month is the average…..try living on that….stop partisan bullsh*t and go live where most of the country lives….from month to month….it is all so easy to condemn when you live on the Lower Eastside …..just once trying living on Main Street…..and please do NOT tell us that when you were growing up things were tough…..how nice for you…..now you live in the lap of luxury….that cancels out any statement about your past poverty…..so pick a spot, any spot, and try living like the rest of us….

I realize that this challenge will go unaccepted……and if so then my point has been made……these people are all talk….no one will give up the lap of luxury to see how the rest of us live…..and they are what they are…pompous asses!…….nice try Chuq!