I’mo Go Squat in Barack and Michelle’s House
Since President Obama
has betrayed, and I don’t use that word lightly, us by forging ahead with his
let them eat cat food legislation as he proposes robbing Social Security with
the “CPI Chain Assault Weapon,” I’ve decided I’mo squat at his pad. I hope First Lady Obama, and First
Grandmother Robinson can bring their understanding and compassion to the table
on this matter. But, he’s leaving
millions of us no choice, as we stock our cupboards with cat food, before the
price skyrockets and we can’t even afford that.
I still don’t even understand how he and/or Congress can go in and gut
SS. It’s nothing short of grand theft, diminishing us down to our last dime. I
remember my husband, who was an economics professor, saying back in 2008 that
Obama would be a “Five Star Republican.”
He was crystal clear on who was about to ascend the presidential throne.
I’ve been paying into
SS since I got my first job in 1959, as a teenager with DC Parks and Recreation. Even during the leanest of my freelance
years, and I mean some of them were bone on bone lean, I paid into Social Security,
so I would have a little somefin’ somefin’ in addition to monies invested in a
retirement plan. He seduced us on the
campaign trail and now is turning around and slitting our throats with belligerent
Beltway and K Street hocus pocus, after nickel and diming us to support his
campaign, while finding even more ways to suck up even more dollars out of
every economic orifice we thought was ours. Protecting the one percent at all
costs to the poor and middle class has become the country’s primary mission, as
the United States has been developed into a full-fledged corporation.
According to those who righteously crunch the
numbers related to Social Security, many retiring now could see their overall
benefits decrease by $18,000.00 while those already retired will feel the pain
as well. Under the chain, those already minimal cost of living adjustments would go down. No matter how these 21st century
robber barons try to spin it, Social Security is completely self-funded through
the payroll tax and does not contribute to the deficit.
While the view inside the
Obama digs will be great and we won’t have to worry about getting “droned,” the
view outside the windows will be filled with all those people betrayed. So when
you find me and a whole posse of my peeps squattin’ up in your pad President Obama, you’ll know
that your Beltway policies had everything to do with it. By the way, do you think you could make us
another batch of those brownies we had last night? They tasted like they had something really
special in them.
Daphne Muse is a writer, social commentator and
poet. You can read her blogs at
www.daphnemuse.blogspot.com
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