As I crawled on my knees in the dust of our attic I saw the old brown looking suitcase in the back corner. I reached for the handle and pulled it closer to me. I brushed the dust and dirt of many years of non use and slowly flipped the latches to the open position. As I lifted the lid I remembered the childhood toy hidden inside. It was an old puppet of a man dressed in a suit with a wooden face . As I placed my hand inside the back he opened his mouth and screamed at me " Wake up Dummy"
As he continued to speak I started to listen to the words. Social Security and Medicare are not in trouble. Without going into details he said that Social Security was solvent and running a surplus with only a 1% administration cost. Medicare problems could be fixed by controlling the high cost of care ,drugs,and increasing the FICA cap from $106,000.00 to a million.
He explained to me how the lower middle class and the working poor relied on these programs to live out their years with some security and dignity. These people did not invest in Wall Street. Wall Street ,on the other hand, had greedy eyes on that money and wanted control of all of it. It was as simple as that. The Republican party had always hated these programs since many of the wealthy did not need them and resented having to support them with their money. All they had to do was to scare the public with debt talks and slowly burden these programs until they just fell from their own weight. "Brilliant "he said. When will you dummies wake up?
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