In your quote from Invester's Business Daily, Harry Reid is quoted as saying Social Security is "the most successful social program in the history of the world." The Roman and Greek Empires were also the most successful governments in the world -- right up until they collapsed under their own weight.

my 'question of the day' is this-has mr geitner ever paid his back taxes? if not why not? when did he pay the, and is he current now? thank you, cb

I recently found a poll by Fox News. "SHOULD THE AMERICAN FLAG BE BANNED IN AMERICA?" I was shocked that any one would consider doing this. May I suggest that all Patriotic Americans display our National Flag as much as possible. From homes to vehicles and flag pins on our clothing that we wear. Also please besure that the flags displayed are made here in the U S A

Regarding Rick Sanchez of CNN's comments in your Deinformatsia section: it's not what is similar about the stores he mentions that Fox News covered, for they cover a number of other stories as well. It's more significant that Mr. Sanchez pulls those out as ones the MSM & CNN did not cover - why not? Who are the racists?

If we could get 11 Million illegal aliens out of scoial security benefits, welfare, food stamps, medicaid/medicare etc., it would save the federal government and state governments 100's of billions of dollars. They don't deserve any of it, it's for Americans. Do not give criminals amnesty, get them out of our country. Give them what Mexico gives Americans in their country, NOTHING.

Unfortunately the 11% approval rating of the scum in congress is, thanks to their gerrymandering and other anti-constitutional parlor tricks, their constituency. That will ensure they get re-elected. Standby, America. After 2010, we'll have only 2 more years before we are under UN control and an imperial presidency of nazi-muslim order as a third world country. During that time, you will see them finally break our economy's back and your purse-strings will be forever destroyed. Our current national complacency, denial, and apathy will absolutely guarantee it.

After reading todays (7/28)Editorial Exegesis and the comments made by Pelosi and Reid at the NUT-roots Conference in Lost Wages I am reminded of a saying I saw some time ago----"Light travels faster than sound, that's why some people appear bright until-----you hear them speak." NUFF SAID!!

Regarding Rick Sanchez of CNN's comments in your Deinformatsia section: it's not what is similar about the stores he mentions that Fox News covered, for they cover a number of other stories as well. It's more significant that Mr. Sanchez pulls those out as ones the MSM & CNN did not cover - why not? Who are the racists?

"Getting defensive: "Let's not get silly here. ... We pay enormous taxes to the state of Massachusetts, and there is nothing illegal here." --Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) when asked about his new $7 million yacht, Isabel, which is docked in Rhode Island instead of Massachusetts -- the move saves Kerry about $500,000 a year in taxes." INCORRECT.

Fox News is reporting: The Massachusetts senator, after an uproar in his home state over the decision to dock his new $7 million yacht in tax-free Rhode Island, told his state's tax collector Tuesday that he would "promptly" pay all Massachusetts taxes on the yacht.

"As we've said from the beginning, we have always complied with tax laws and we always will," the senator said in a written statement. "The payment is being made promptly."

The 2004 Democratic presidential nominee has been dogged by charges of tax evasion since last week, when the Boston Herald first reported about his decision to dock the 76-foot sloop Isabel in Newport, R.I.

Doing so spared Kerry a $437,500 one-time sales tax charge in Massachusetts, as well as about $70,000 in annual excise taxes. Rhode Island repealed those taxes in 1993, making the state something of a nautical tax haven.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/27/kerry-agrees-pay-massachusetts-tax-yacht-docked-rhode-island/

why won't Republicans defend Pres. Bush? i thought he did a good job and much prefer to be back under his policies instead of Obama's. Republicans should quote stats showing how much better off we were then.

Mark, forgive this tiny bit of criticism, but to quote Margaret Mead as any kind of example to adhere to is way more than I can agree to. If you read about the type of life she led, her principles and lifetime accomplishments were as different and antagonistic to what true Patriots believe in as to be on a different planet. There have to be better examples than this to use in your wonderful column.

Charlie Seng

"Federal Judge Blocks Part of Arizona Immigration Law." Fox News.Com

Any bets we have an activist, Liberal Federal judge that made this ruling?

It wouldn't surprise me if she received a call from the Obama justice department asking, no not asking, telling, this judge to strike down certain aspects for political favors and vote harvesting positioning.

Seemingly, there isn't an honorable, independent judge left in this country who doesn't thumb their noses at the US constitution!

"The revelation that tax increases could hurt the economy has recently been heard from Senators Evan Bayh of Indiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and, most surprising, even from Kent Conrad of North Dakota. On a scale of unlikely events, this is like the Pope coming out against celibacy." --The Wall Street Journal

While listening to Hannity the other night, I heard Bob Beckel(sp?) rant that the GOP as "the party of NO" hasn't had any original ideas since the Civil War. I guess he forgot about the National Parks (T. Roosevelt), integrating the military and the Interstate Highway System (Eisenhower), the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the 60's (Sen. Dirksen - opposed by a majority of Democrats, including Byrd and Gore, Sr.), and more recently, Welfare Reform (Gingrich - Contract with America, vetoed by Clinton twice, yet claimed credit for it when deciding not to veto it a third time in a re-election year) - just a few starters.

Getting back to Mr. Beckel's premise, I yelled back, "When was the last time a majority of Democrats opposed a tax increase? There's some original thinking for you." The party of tax and spend has continued to be the party of tax and spend, except the spending has gone to the extreme that they are now the party of "borrow, tax, and spend". And they wonder how the term "unsustainable" crept into the political lexicon.

The more I read in the Patriot Post, the more it reinforces what I have said for years, and continue to say today - "The ignorant among us - the Harry Reids and Nancy Pelosis, as well as their many minions - the Democrats haven't a clue about what the electorate wants, and sadly, I feel, don't care."

Regarding Rick Sanchez of CNN's comments in your Deinformatsia section: it's not what is similar about the stores he mentions that Fox News covered, for they cover a number of other stories as well. It's more significant that Mr. Sanchez pulls those out as ones the MSM & CNN did not cover - why not? Who are the racists?

I was about to comment on Margaret Mead when I read that Charile Seng beat me to it. He is right.

It also should occur to Patriots that God has felt free to intervene in human affairs repeatedly and without any need for our help. Once we see the hand of Providence, we ought to join in. So, Mead is out of place on two counts -- her overall damaging influence on our culture, and the fact that her inspiring quote is humanistic to a fault. A small group of thoughtful citizens is NOT the only thing that has ever changed the world.

Your quote of the Argus Hamilton joke about Al Gore receiving the Oscar for Best Animated Short was beneath you. I expect a higher level of decorum from a publication of your august stature. Please leave childish sexual innuendo to the late night talk shows and apply the same high standards of civility to humor that you do to serious commentary.

The comment on "talking points" reminds me of how quickly - really over a weekend - the term "gravitas" emerged during the 2000 election to demean Bush while elevating Cheney.

Aristotle’s criticism of Liberalism (Communism)

"Such communistic legislation may have a specious appearance of benevolence; men readily listen to it, and are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when someone is heard denouncing the evils now existing in states, suits about contracts, convictions for perjury, flatteries of rich men and the like, which are said to arise out of the possession of private property. These evils, however, are due to a very different cause - the wickedness of human nature. Indeed, we see that there is much more quarrelling among those who have all things in common, though there are not many of them when compared with the vast numbers who have private property."

Aristotle, et al., saw the dangers of communism and "entitlement demanding" societies. Liberals (communists) have learned nothing from the great minds of the past and present.

Where have all the great philosophers gone?

"Even though Arizona's interests may be consistent with those of the federal government, it is not in the public interest for Arizona to enforce pre-empted laws," Bolton wrote." Fox News.Com

Not in the public's interest! You have got to be kidding me?

Rape, murders, drug and human traficing, billions of tax dollars, rising costs for health care, social security, lost jobs, welfare, food stamps, no alliegance, fake ID's, stolen Social Security numbers, etc., etc.

We could go on. This lady is on drugs. "Not in the interest of the public," my ass!

07/28/10

"QUESTION"?

When elected officials SWEAR to uphold an AVOWED

PLEDGE,Such as our RULE of LAW.He STATES his

TRUSTWOTHYNESS and HONOR to Defend it in all

circumstance.If the official is an activist on

their PLEDGE,Why is there not a consquence

for an activist judge,congress person or sentor.

Sirs,

For your information I am a registered voter with the Constitution Party and did so after many years of disappointment with the Republicans.

I am retired and paid for my Social Security retirement through payroll deductions for approximately 40 years. Social Security for those who paid into the system IS NOT an entitlement. I paid for it... It's not the Senior Citizen"s fault that so many of our Congress stole from it and we should not be penalized by you or anyone else because of the thievery that continues even until today. Why don't you suggest that we stop giving it to those that are illegal, phony disability claims, and those who never paid in, but receive it anyway. Maybe an even better idea would be to force those Congress members who took the money and ran leaving behind an IOU to pay it back or do some prison time for the theft of the money that hard working Americans were forced to pay in...

NO, Social Security is not an entitlement for people like me who were forced to pay into the system and please stop calling it as such because now that it's my turn you don't want to pay. I didn't shirk my responsibility when your family members accepted their Social Security benefits and I would expect that you become a man and accept your responsibility to those that supported your family as well.

Larry Buckley

Heaven help us: "[W]e're trying to build a government that delivers much more bang for the buck than it ever has before." --Joe Biden

And taxes payers are the ones getting blown away.

"The No. 1 problem facing this nation is the massive deficit we face over the next 75 years, due almost entirely to the expansion of Social Security and Medicare. The only way to address the deficit is to address entitlements. .." Investor's Business Daily

STOP calling Social Security and Medicare "entitlements", We, the people, were "FORCED" to participate.

MAKE SOCIAL SECURITY VOLUNTARY

1. Cash Settlement with Interest to all who are now, "FORCED" to pay. Make the system "Voluntary"

2. Cash Settlement with interest to those who are "drawing Social Security" or they can stay with the "plan", as was the "contract" when they were "FORCED" to participate and are now receiving payments.

The Federal government must settle this "honorably". This is how to do it. Once this Social Security is made Voluntary, the "FORCE" will be gone.

I think all this calling "Social Security" "entitlements" means the Federal Government wants to get out of the "contract" after they have "spent the money". Millions and Billions for Foreign Aid, but they can not take care of this "travesty" to the Americans who have been "FORCED".

The above plan is simple and honorable and should be instituted immediately. Those who have been "FORCED" need for this to be settled honorably.

For God & Country

The American

I love Patriot Post, read it religiously,and support it with my hard-earned dollars. However,when articles such as the one from BUSINESS INVESTORS WEEKLY appear,calling Social Security an 'entitlement program",you lose me....And I'm sure many others like me.

Social Security was very popular with the American people when enacted,and I personally paid into it for thirty-three years of my life. Referring to something that many hard-working Americans paid into for so many years as an "entitlement program",is,I believe,flat-out wrong. I suspect the chief critics are the young people who would like to see older people just "go away" on this issue.

If you'd like to eliminate Social Security,I say fine. Simply pay back every dollar I put into it all those years,plus my employers contributions,and a fair rate of interest,and we can eliminate it. We'll call it even. How about that?!

Re Editorial Exegesis, 7/28, Invester'Business Daily. This quote is abusive: "Nor does Reid, like Pelosi, get that Social Security is in a deep crisis. He called it 'the most successful social program in the history of the world.' Successful? A program that socks future generations with trillions in higher taxes and lower standards of living? A program that's already running in the red and whose unsustainable finances promise to push the U.S. to the verge of bankruptcy?" I paid into SSA for 55 years. I have tabulated all the monies I and my employer paid into my account. With earnings of just 3 pct compounded annually, there could have been more than enough principle to pay me the maximum benefit for the rest of my life.

I am in complete agreement with earlier comments about calling Social Security an entitlement.

Social Security was a bad bargain forced on me by the U.S. government as a condition of being employed. I could have provided for my retirement much better than the government could but I had no choice.

I kept my part of the bargain for more than 40 years. Now it's time for the U.S. government to keep its part of the bargain. Don't tell me Social Security is an entitlement; call it the biggest Ponzi scheme in history but don't blame the victim (me) for that and don't call it an entitlement.

The one question I have about social security and medicare, which section of the Constitution authorizes them? How many people know the two main differences between a Ponzi Scheme and social security? You get a better return in a Ponzi Scheme and no one is forced to join a Ponzi Scheme. Where do you think Medolf got his idea? And to add some knowledge not generally known. Otto Bismark came up with the original idea for social security and Adolph refined it. FDR fits right in with these two great humanitarians. Also before anyone says I would not be against social security and medicare if I received them I turned 65 last year. Getting back some of the money stolen from me. Yes stolen, don't pay FICA and see what happens. Finally call them by their correct name " stealing from your children and grandchildren."

The Liberals won a battle in AZ over immigration. [Ie: the Fed. Court ruling blocking the major parts of the AZ immigration law]. But my idea is just to keep praying and allow the Lord to do His work, for as Rush and others have said, this can not help Liberals in the election in Nov.

Your item "Getting defensive: "Let's not get silly here. ... We pay enormous taxes to the state of Massachusetts, and there is nothing illegal here." --Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) when asked about his new $7 million yacht, Isabel, which is docked in Rhode Island instead of Massachusetts -- the move saves Kerry about $500,000 a year in taxes" is slightly wrong. The $500,000 is what it would cost him for the first year. That includes sales tax on the yacht. After that, the fee would be around $70,000. Still if he can pay it, it must be nice to be so poor.

OKay! Social Security is an ENTITLEMENT, because I earned the money I was Forced to contribute, & I earned the money My Employer(s) were forced to contribute on my behalf because the employer(s) would have paid that money direct to me as wages. I have TITLE to that money, it IS MINE, & I want it with INTEREST, & UNdiluted by INflation. These items are NOT ENTITLEMENTS by definition because I have NO Right or OWNERSHIP in either of them: Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment, Welfare, CouldObamaCareLess, Subsidies, grants, student loans, this list is almost endless.

Some years ago I bought a book written by Dave Breese entitled "Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave." The seven were: Karl Marx,Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein,Soren Kierkegaard, Julius Wellenhausen, John Dewey and John Maynard Keynes. The book written twenty years ago and probably out of print was and is an eye opener. Think about the seven above and look around and the reality of the influence of these men, long gone, is an ever present reality.

"Just letting those tax cuts that only go to 2 percent to 3 percent of Americans, the highest-earning Americans in the country, expire -- I do not believe it will have a negative effect on growth." Treasury Secretary Timothy "Tax Cheat" Geithner

At the rate Mr. Geithner is going this will be true by January 2011. The unemployement rate WILL be 98%.

Ruth Ann Wilson. You got it right. They stole over two trillion dollars from the Social Security Fund and have no intention of paying it back. Never had and never will. You can just see the wheels turning on the course of action to take to eliminate the program without paying anyone a cent. If they can do it to stockholders they can easily do it to John Q. Public. What happens to rabid dogs should be the fate of these folks.

There are basically two types of

people. People who have accomplished

things, and people who claim to have

accomplished things. The first group

is less crowded.----Mark Twain (1835-1910)

I've heard horror stories most of my adult life about the Fed is 'borrowing' or otherwise misusing Social Security funds. Had they been wisely invested and not tampered with, would Social Security still be such a burden?

I've heard horror stories most of my adult life about the Fed is 'borrowing' or otherwise misusing Social Security funds. Had they been wisely invested and not tampered with, would Social Security still be such a burden?

If a Federal Judge claims that the Arizona law is not constitutional because it usurps the Federal government authority of enforcing that law then how many other State laws that mimic Federal laws need to be struck down? If it is a Federal crime to commit murder does that mean a State cannot have a law, and enforce it, that makes murder a crime in that State as well?