General Discussion

We need to start a letter writing campaign, starting with the "Mainstream Media" talking heads, then move on to our local Reps, our State Reps and Senators, our U.S. Congresscritters in the House & Senate, and all the way to the Vice President *and* the President DEMANDING that they stop using the term "entitlements" for Social Security, SSDI *and* Medicare!

These things are NOT, in any way, shape or form, "entitlements"! We had money taken out of OUR PAYCHECKS every week, bi-monthly or however you got paid, with the PROMISE that it would be there for us when we reached retirement age, or if we became disabled and could no longer work. The ONLY way it could be considered an "entitlement" is due to the fact that it is OUR MONEY and, YES, we are "entitled" to it when it is due to us, as promised.

Millions of Americans *depend* on those SS or SSDI checks to live on, and barely scratch by month to month. If Congress decides to cut payments, or cut the programs off completely causing people to lose everything they have, they are just too damned STUPID to understand the Hell they will unleash. I honestly think that they are TOO DAMNED STUPID to realize that the person who has nothing left to lose is the most dangerous person they will ever run across! When you have nothing left to lose, you have everything to gain... even if you have to TAKE IT! I have actually heard people say that *IF* they lost their Social Security or Disability checks, they're going to be camping out on the lawns, or in the houses, of their Congresscritters. Some have said they'd be camped out all over D.C., even if it meant the Whitehouse lawn, Capitol Hill, in the streets, parking lots, parking garages, etc.

You may be asking yourselves "WHY would they do that?!?!" The answer is simple... "Why not?? We have nothing else to lose! What are they going to do?? Shoot us?? So what, I have nothing left to lose! Jail us?? So what, I have nothing left to lose... at least I'll have somewhere to stay and get fed!"

IMHO, they need to end the failed war on drugs, cut defense spending in half, and maybe cut some pay from Congresscritters, then invest that money into rebuilding our infrastructure, which would create jobs Nation wide, and invest in THE PEOPLE! Give THE PEOPLE some HOPE & SECURITY, and do it QUICKLY, or I'm afraid we are headed to a really dark place in this Country and, quite frankly, I *do not* want to see that happen.

Give Peace and HOPE a chance!

Ghost