SOCIAL SECURITY and MEDICARE

There are probably no other political issues that have a greater effect on my personal life than Social Security and Medicare. Almost two-thirds of my retirement income is from Social Security, and Medicare is my primary health insurance provider.

I know from personal experience the importance of preserving Social Security and Medicare for one’s retirement years. During my laboring years I tried to acquire financial security for my senior years, but things did not work out as I had intended..

It is easy for those more fortunate people, for whom affluence came into their lives, to be critical of those of us who are dependent. It is easy for them to justify tax cuts for the rich at the expense of a more secure Social Security and Medicare programs; after all, they reason and justify, “it is our own fault that we made few financial provisions to assist us in our old age.” Perhaps some of those people will have more understanding and empathy when the Wall Street investments they have spent their lifetime investing in, for their retirement years, fall from lofty heights into an abyss below. It can happen, it has happened, and it is likely to happen again. Because of that possible abyss, I cannot in good conscience recommend that any part of the Social Security Security contributions be invested in the stock market. The need for Social Security income in retirement years, for many, can be far too great to gamble with any part of it; whether the gamble be in the stock market or in Las Vegas.

I, Vic Roberts, believe that the whole Social Security privatization scheme is a New World Order scam aimed at their further control over America’s money supply; thus, more control of the people by making them more dependent on New World Order controlled money.

I believe there should be no so-called reform of the Social Security program until after the trillions of dollars that the Washington puppet politicians have looted from the S.S. Trust Fund is replaced, and until after caps have been removed from Social Security tax earnings. In regards to the looting of the Social Security Trust Fund, I believe you will find these words of U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill disturbing, "The Social Security Trust Fund does not have any assets.” It is my understanding that the SS Trust Fund is supposed to have assets of $1.2 trillion. Where is the discrepancy? Based on my knowledge of the issue, Secretary O’Neill is accurate when he implied that the SS Trust Fund Bonds are not real assets, as the people are lead to believe. The SS Trust Fund Bonds are being accumulated as a replacement for surplus SS tax dollars; dollars that the Washington puppet politicians are spending faster than they come in. In other words, Social Security tax dollars are being traded for bonds, which are as Secretary O’Neill implied, worthless pieces of paper until they are replaced with actual tax dollars. Indeed, Secretary O’Neill is accurate when he said, "The Social Security Trust Fund does not have any assets.” To the point, Social Security taxpayers are being defrauded with fake bonds.

I, Vic Roberts, favor the inclusion of prescription drugs in the Medicare program; also, I favor the Medicare program being incorporated into of a National Health Care Insurance Program, a program that will change the present health care system which has turned into a Wall Street business transaction where people not at all involved in direct health care can speculate and make fortunes, fortunes at the expense of another’s labor. Under our present health care system we have millions of our citizens uninsured, while millions more are underinsured, with millions more being bankrupted trying to pay astronomical health care insurance premiums.

We need, yes we must have, a cost efficient, not for profit national health care program where only those directly involved in giving medical care benefit financially. I, Vic Roberts, believe the health of us laboring class people, small business operators, and family farmers, yes, we of the American struggling masses is far more important than profit dollars for Wall Street investors, insurance companies, and huge salaries for corporate executives.

Your campaign contribution to Vic Roberts for US Senator is an investment toward a more secure Social Security and Medicare Insurance programs, as well as a national health care program. Your contribution is an investment toward political leadership for the common good of our citizens, and the general welfare of our great nation; representation for the demise of the New World Order’s evil empire.

In the words of a great lady, Mother Jones, "Let us pray for the dead but fight like hell for the living.”

Vic Roberts IL (2004) US Senate candidate

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