Bernie Sanders Has An Amazingly Simple Idea To Fix Social Security For The Next 75 Years

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31. The idea that the money has been spent is not a RW idea.

Cynicism knows no party label.

My dad hammered on that topic, and he was a lil to the right of me.

My Teabagger neighbor thinks about the notion the funds are gone.
And so do many of my liberal and far to the left friends.

What helps us in our cynicism is the fact that the government officials themselves keep saying the money isn't there, that the Social Security checks come out of the General Fund, and not the Social Security Fund.

If you listen to my Congressman, Mike Thompson, (D) - he harps on this all the time. He brings the same phony baloney pie chart to the "meet and greet" local meetings, that Bill Maher uses. "Social Security very very bad - it comes out of the General Fund and is bankrupting our nation."

I have seen several devoted activists attend these meetings and try to tell him that his chart is wrong and that the Social Security monies are there. But he brushes aside these people, as he is a big important Congressman.

So maybe there is truth to that.

Gawd only knows, the government under two Administrations has allowed the Big Banks to take some Fifteen to Sixteen Trillions of dollars out of our pocket through Bernanke's satisfying his banking friends. (And when Grayson tried to find out where a mere 500 billion of this money went, Bernanke refused to say.)

So maybe they've raided Social Security too. We fight wars based on lies; we watch as our friends our foreclosed on, even though we know that 35 states banned foreclosures in the 1930's. So just why is it it impossible to believe that government officials would not steal Social Security funds away too?