Who are the Social Security Trustees?

[freshwest]

11. No, why would you assume that? Do you believe they can overrule Congress?

Frankly, I don't like a lot of these characters, like Simpson. The issue has been pushed in lieu of taxes on the wealthy, which is wrong, and which FDR set at 90%. They've been screwing the system up so badly since Reagan, that it's all out of proportion.

The 1% or whoever one calls the boogeyman, went international or global many years ago, if they weren't always that way. When you see the familial patterns, just as we used to check into who was sitting on the interlocking directorates of the Vietnam era, it's clear that there are sections of this country and the world that have always been offlimits to the proles. Like the church, like the big estates.

It's obvious why Carlin referred to them as being in 'a club, and you ain't in it.' This is not new. A few generations of people taking for granted that the 1% was benign toward the 99% did this, and expecting their parents' sacrifice to be respected.

There really may not be a 99% as far as the levels. Many people are not in a life and death struggle and depend on government service. They are either not politically involved, are part of the system underneath the 1%, and consider it within their best interests to protect the ones who hire them.

The situation is complex, and we need to stick more to principles than to persons/personalities. IMHO. At no time did I mean to imply that we shouldn't look at all of this, just saying that's not all it is.