Throughout this presidential election cycle the national media has been the subject of widespread ridicule for systematically ignoring the Ron Paul candidacy. Well, they have finally found their legs. They have a story that their corporate executives will let them publish. Ron Paul, they say, is a hypocrite because he has long proclaimed that he doesn’t believe in the government’s social security program but nonetheless, now, takes a monthly social security check for himself.
The big news was apparently revealed in a recent interview on MSNBC. It is a hilarious story and shows how the media risks alienating its more observant viewers to play to the general ignorance of the public. I guess they figure, the cat’s out of the bag, the more savvy now know we are all corporate puppets who say what we are told to say for the privilege of being famous and rich and popular with our cousins back home, so we might as well shamelessly argue the absurd. Most people are too dumb to notice.
So once again, here I am, a humble an amateur blogger, offering the real story for those who love truth and enjoy these waning moments of liberty where we can still spread it around. (Enjoy this season while it lasts, the internet is a loop hole that the elitists in this country are trying desperately to plug.)
In the first place, the money Ron Paul put into the social security fund over the years is HIS money. Just as the money you put into the account is your money. It does not belong to MSNBC or to the US government. It is not Obama’s money. It does not belong to the Social Security Administration. It belongs to Ron Paul. And your money belongs to you. That was the whole idea of social security.
Secondly, Ron Paul did not have a choice. And neither do you. Unless you are an ordained minister, who makes a one time decision and opts out of the social security program altogether, out of moral conscience, you are forced to pay money into the program all your life. If you are employed it will be taken out of your paycheck. The government says it is for your own good. It is not an option.
If, when he was young, Ron Paul had refused to participate in the program and not paid into it, he would have been thrown into jail for tax evasion.
If, now that he is old, he refuses to take his money out of it, he is saying that the money wasn’t really his to begin with and he has no claim on it.
Third, while the original program was passed with the promise that the money would be separated from other government monies, after all, it does not belong to the government, that promise broke down long ago and the government had been spending it on wars and social programs that will help presidents get re-elected. And thus the Social Security funds have almost been depleted and the program cannot be sustained. It is one of the great moral failures of the American government.
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Great article I remember seeing on Google “News” them whining about this. The man Earned that money, as I do but unfortunately I will never see a cent of my money back I pay in.