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11/21/08
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April 26, 2005 This is almost what happened to 66 of us from across the nation that signed an "Open Letter" to the President and the Honorable Members of Congress and emailed it to our Representatives, Senators and the White House. We fully
expected that our letter would merely fall into the hands of minions who
work for these well shielded dignitaries and not be read by the person
to whom it was addressed, probably glanced at then tossed in the circular
file, and only a letter from a voting constituent would even get that
far. At most we would probably receive one of those "thank you for
writing" form letters that invites you to breakfast the next time
you're in So far, the response has been even less than expected – which could be a good or a bad sign. It could mean that our letter has already been deleted, passed through the shredder, or is sitting on someone's desk in a pile waiting for the next person in the hierarchy to notice it. On the other hand, it could be that they're actually thinking about what we said – particularly the recommendation we made. At this point in time, it's worth noting that we did receive two page formal responses from at least two of the major players in the Senate, both democrats. We assume that the good Senators at least approved their letters before they were emailed to us. One of
these letters is from Senator Harry Reid, the Senate Minority Leader,
and the other is from the very experienced Senator Richard Durbin of Neither of these responses even addresses the main subject of our letter or, for that matter, any of the other points in the letter. It's as though no one read or understood what they read or childishly refuse to acknowledge any part of our content. All while seizing the opportunity to deliver their own message. I also feel that we are the victims of the canned response syndrome. Read the first sentence, then: Hey Brian, here's another one on Social Security. OK Megan, send the Senator's response number three. The main
point of our letter was a recommendation that the federal government at
least pretend to be fiscally responsible by eliminating the fraudulent
$3.2 trillion side of the national debt. Pretense is a common commodity
in That said; let's look at what the good Senators are trying to spoon feed us. Right off the bat, Senator Reid tries to pretend that the two sides of the national debt are the same, that there's no difference between "Public Debt" and "Intragovernmental Holdings" (IH), when the two are as different as night and day. Public Debt, the side that should more properly be called "Investor Debt," is the honest constitutionally permitted borrowing that is managed by Mr. Van Zeck of the Treasury's Bureau of Public Debt. It's where investors walk-in with their eyes wide open to loan our government money under contract. It's what has always been considered "the safest investment in the world" because it's backed by the full faith and credit of the American taxpayers. No other reason. The IH side of the national debt is a scam. If the media, the watchdogs, or the Fourth Estate in general were ever to ask Mr. Van Zeck what he has to do with this side of our debt he would tell them that he has nothing at all to do with it except to faithfully record it to the penny under "Who Holds the Debt." This IH side should be called "Entitlements and Perks" because it's where Social Security, Military Retirement, FERS, Unemployment, and many other entitlements are recorded as the great bulk of this "debt" and do so because the federal government pretends that surpluses generated by these entitlements can be both spent and saved. A lie that's a thousand times more criminal than anything Enron did, but from which private sector people like Ken Lay may have taken direction. It's also the side where American taxpayers are set-up for double taxation plus interest. While the Beltway Bandits pretend that they are somehow responsible for redeeming this side of the debt – the truth is that they could only redeem it with taxpayer money. Let's not forget that the above is coming from the man who immediately after the last State of the Union address delivered a veiled threat to the republicans on national television by saying that the national debt stood at "$4.3 trillion." In other words, he proved that he understood the division of the debt and threatened to blow the whistle on the dishonest fraudulent side. Sorry Senator – no cigar. Senator Durbin takes a separate approach. He presents us with the old tried and true worries about Social Security's long range shortfalls and bashes President Bush's silly "privatization" plans with some serious distortions of history and the roles people played in the Reagan administration. Ending up with the recommendation that we repeat this folly, raising payroll taxes far beyond necessity and increasing the booty for people like him to steal and spend elsewhere. You can expect this modus operandi to carry right up to the mid-term elections of 2006 with "fixes" for Social Security that we need like another hole in the head. In short, the democrats seem to think that we are a bunch of dummies who don't know what's been going on and thus take the opportunity to push their agenda rather than respond to the points in our letter. The democrats are united behind an agenda that's out to stonewall the Bush plan, whatever that plan happens to be, and open the door to an even greater expansion of the scam. This is evident in what they call "transition costs" adding to the national debt. Costs that are nothing more than the money they intend to borrow if their slush fund is cut off by up to four points of individual payroll tax contributions. The 911 line in Washington gets you a busy signal.
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