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Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Addition to the "Books to Read" Recommended List
A reader recently emailed a suggestion.
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As suggested in the following email, I’ve added Frederic Bastiat’s “The Law” to the recommended list under Books to Read. The remainder of the reader’s email is also worthwhile, so I’ve produced it below:
I came across your site doing a search for how Social Security really works. I went to your link “Books to Read” and noticed, and was disappointed that Bastiat’s book “The Law” was not on the list. May I recommend it? There is a link where the entire book is on the web (http://www.constitution.org/law/bastiat.htm ).
I also sent the following email to Dr. Walter E. Williams. You might enjoy it:
Dear Dr. Williams:
I just read your article on Social Security. I’ve talked to a number of intelligent and informed people, and am amazed, absolutely amazed at how many people clearly have absolutely NO idea how Social security really works.
Though I applaud Pres. Bush that he’s broached the subject of SS reform, all he really wants to do is paint a skunk purple and call it a rose. Here is what I wrote to a number of people a few weeks ago:
“If it be asked , ‘What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic?’ The answer would be, ‘An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws—the first growing out of the last.’... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.” --Alexander Hamilton
So, how do we reform Social Security in light of the highest law in the land (from a secular point of view), namely the 10th Amendment? End it. Kill it. Put a stake through the heart of this 70 year old vampire that sucks the blood out of the carotid artery of the hard working citizens of the United States . Let the government take the hit for once. Enough of this trying to “fix” or “save” SS. This is the same as saying “Long Live Cancer” when we have the cure.
Jack Wheeler on World Net Daily has a great idea that all falls within the Constitution. Wheeler (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42013 first 6 paragraphs) shows how we can kill the illegal program AND pay all recipients to whom the government has made a promise. We can end this monster finally, and the only on that has to keel over is Congress and the President...for once.
Plus, this end of SS would bring a hard dose of financial reality and accountability to the Congress and the Treasury. The REAL deficit would no longer be hidden behind the fraud of the listing of liabilities called treasury bonds being listed as assets when the SS Admin buys the bonds with FICA proceeds. The people would finally see that the emperor (Congress and the President, past and present) have no clothes. They would finally not be able to hide behind SS anymore. They would not be able to threaten us with SS. They would not be able to break faith with us on this issue ( such as means tested benefits-which means that you paid for the benefits that were promised to you for decades. And that with the single call of a vote and stroke of a pen, that decades long promise is broken. You would punished for doing well). Also, notice that all the proposals being put forth put the onus on the ones who’ve been defrauded .
Step up people.
I give GWB credit for at least opening up the debate. And he asked for suggestions and plans in the SOTU.
Let’s go!
I do not want my Sunday Schoolers, your children and grand-children paying for my Social Security. Or my prescription drugs.
Oh, and by the way, some of you may notice the subscript below my name. Recte Faciendo Neminem Timeo comes form the 322 nd Bomb Group of the 8 th Air Force.
It translates to “I Fear None in Doing Right”.
Ending SS is right.
Do it for the children...YOUR children!
Keep up the work Dr. Williams.
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