March 15, 2005

Irony Alert

Unbelievable hypocrisy has caused the broken irony alert meter to start ringing incessantly once more here at the Funny Farm: Greenspan: Fix Social Security to Protect Economy. Now he tells us that U.S. lawmakers must move swiftly to shore up the Social Security retirement system to avoid economically crippling budget deficits in the future. Um, wouldn't those record budget deficits, and the interest payments on the money needed to finance them, have anything to do with avoiding crippling budget deficits in the future? Wouldn't the recent giveaway to the pharmaceutical companies in last terms' huge Medicare rip-off, er, Republic legislation, and the increased expense thereof, have anything to do with avoiding crippling budget deficits in the future?

This evil clown also admits he was wrong about surplus forecasts in 2001, but then says he would still line the pockets of the wealthiest 1% of Americans advocate for the tax cuts he supported then. Gee, does anyone else wonder why an old man who is among the elite in terms of personal wealth would still think that it's okay to give himself more money at the expense of everyone else?

Funny how this Chimperor toady publicly states that 2008 is shaping up as a deadline year. Funny how the last year that pRezNit Do As I Say, Not As I Do can pillage the government till is going to be a crisis year. Funny how all those tax cuts which have failed to stimulate the economy have nothing to do with all the deficit problems we're having. And the billions we've been spending on Operation Iraqi Liberation don't seem to figure into the calculations either. Nor do all those hundreds of millions (that we've found out about so far) that Halliburton has stolen from the American taxpayers. Isn't that amazing - it's all Social Security's fault!

Hey - there's a relatively easy and painless (for a vast majority of the citizens of the United States) solution to this problem*: rescind the tax cuts for the wealthiest 5% of the population, and raise the salary cap on Social Security taxable income to $150,000. How come everyone except those who will lose their unfair advantages can admit that will solve the problem? Somehow we don't think that these points will be brought up by any of the rich elitist Republic shill journalists on Faux Noose or the Conservative News Network, or even MSGOP/NBC or Viacom/CBS or Disney/ABC.

Is anybody else scared yet?

* - at least, among sane, non-senile economists these days there seems to be some consensus that this would solve the problem.

Posted by (: Tom :) at March 15, 2005 07:29 PM