No one tunes in at the Government.

It's been awhile...

I've been at camp - twice. I've been in Florida for training. I've been working.
I haven't been reading info on the internet like I usually do. I did find this article about Medicare and Social Security Numbers. Agency Sees Theft Risk for ID Card in Medicare from The New York Times by Robert Pear.

There are times when state and private industry has the jump of the federal gov't. I don't give my social to anyone who 1) isn't paying me and has to report my earnings or 2) giving me a loan or line of credit. I guess I'm glad I'm not on Medicare.
If you have Medicare, who could you complain to that would listen and be able to do something about it? No one. Social security officials know it's a problem but the Medicare officials say it would cost too much. Hello - let's steal their identity and see how much it would cost them to get it fixed!

Dumb SH_TS!

An 800 Pound Gorilla

"Everybody knows that there are a couple of 800-pound gorillas under the rug, but nobody wants to talk about them because that is not the route to the Oval Office," said economist Robert D. Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute public policy center. "The situation is unsustainable in the long run, but the long run is in the future, and our political system operates very much in the present."
Quote taken from LA Times.

I agree. If we know it's there and everyone is tripping over it why not acknowledge the beast and tell us what you are going to do. If you don't have an extermination plan let us know you don't. We know you don't just be a politician that tells the truth. Medicare and Social Security is not sustainable - I knew that in high school. The numbers back then told me that. Yes we could count that high back then!

I'm OK with the idea - I'll be paying into a system that I will never benefit from. I knew it was going to happen when my first paycheck arrived with all the deductions I gave to the Government. Some has to end the torture and I don't want it to be my kids. Do I like it? NO! Do I want someone else to bear the burden? Yes, but that is wrong. Social Security was not meant as a retirement plan. Do some research!