Social Security Problems
Having recently received answers from Texas Republican Senators
Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn to letters I
sent on Social Security problems and possible solutions, I
need to share this as to, "How Out of It They
Are".
Neither Hutchison or Cornyn mention that
the US Congress owes near $2
TRILLION in IOUs to the Social Security Trust Fund. Hutchison's states:
"Although the Social Security
Trust Fund is accumulating large annual surpluses, these surpluses are
projected to end by 2018 as the Baby Boom generations
reaches retirement age. By approximately 2040, the Social Security Trust
Fund will be exhausted and the system will only be able to cover about 70
percent of promised benefits."
The truth is:
There
is no money in the fund, except the Congressional IOUs.
No surplus
money is going into the Trust Fund as the Congress is using these
surpluses as General Revenue Funds.
Ex-US
Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, recently
indicated that
surpluses will run out as early as 2008.
The
2040 date Hutchison uses is only realistic if Congress pays the $2
Trillion
owed in IOUs, plus any future surpluses they use as
General Purpose Funds.
These two Republican Senators manage our tax
dollars. When asked about problems,
their answers do not include all factors. This is
unacceptable and they, along with colleagues doing the same, should be
voted out of office.
Respectfully.
Colonel Colin J. N. Chauret, USAF
Retired
Secret Torture Prisons
Why is it that Congressional Republicans are more concerned
over the "Intelligence Leak" about secret prisons established
by this Republican Administration in Eastern European,
Colonel Colin J. N. Chauret, USAF
Retired
31 Years Service, WWII,
Gasoline Prices
The price of gasoline has increased 20 cents a gallon to $2.60 for
regular unleaded in the
Colonel Colin J. N. Chauret, USAF
Retired
31 Years Service, WWII,
TROOPS IN
President Bush indicated in his White House News Conference on
March 21, 2006 that our military forces may well remain in
Colonel Colin J. N. Chauret, USAF
Retired
31 Years Service, WWII,
Enough is Enough
President Bush has engaged this country in an unpopular preemptive
war, ruined the good will of our allies, has
the highest deficit spending in the history of our nation and outsourcing
of good jobs. This is the legacy he is leaving our children to bare,
war, hatred, never ending debt and lack of high paying
jobs. With allowing the of management of our major sea ports to the
Arab world, a possible high security risk, he is now telling the world we
do not have the capability to manage our own sea ports. Enough is enough.
When will the Congress have the intestinal fortitude to impeach George W,
Bush?
Respectfully,
Colonel Colin J. N. Chauret, USAF
Retired
31 Years Active Duty, WWII,
Apathy in
(An excerpt
from a Mark Danner's Article)
In the end, the
Downing Street memo, and Americans' lack of interest in what it shows, has to
do with a certain attitude about facts, or rather about where the line should
be drawn between facts and political opinion. It calls to mind an interesting
observation that an unnamed "senior advisor" to President Bush made
to a New York Times Magazine reporter last fall:
"The aide said that guys like me [i.e., reporters and
commentators] were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he
defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study
of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment
principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really
works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create
our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you
will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too,
and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of
you, will be left to just study what we do.'"
Though this
seems on its face to be a disquisition on religion and faith, it is of course
an argument about power, and its influence on truth. Power, the argument runs,
can shape truth: power, in the end, can determine reality, or at least the
reality that most people accept a critical
point, for the administration has been singularly effective in its recognition
that what is most politically important is not what readers of the New York
Times believe but what most Americans are willing to believe. The last
century's most innovative authority on power and truth, Joseph Goebbels, made the same point but rather more directly:
"There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals.
For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the
stronger, and this will always be 'the man in the
street.' Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to
emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely
subordinate to tactics and psychology."
(The complete
article can be reviewed by going to "
Respectfully,
Colonel Colin J. N. Chauret,
USAF Retired, 31 Years Service, WWII,
Bush Asked to Explain
President Bush has failed to respond to the UK War Memo which puts
him and his administration in an embarrassing position. He should explain,
under oath, to the US Congress and the American public. Is it possible, he
is hesitant in answering because he would have to tell the truth, that
is; he did "cook the books" with intelligence about WMD to aid
in his pre-emptive war against Iraq or does not want to commit perjury?
This is an important issue. After all, we have had close to 1700 military
killed, thousands more maimed for life, along with thousands of
innocent Iraqis killed and maimed.
For Verification of the issue, go to UK War Memo and Search.
Respectfully,
Colonel Colin J. N. Chauret, USAF
Retired
31 year Military Service, WWII,