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In 1935 Social Security seemed like a good idea. It was our money, stewarded by the government to be returned to us with interest when we get old. It turns out however that the government is fundamentally unsuited to steward other peoples money. The Social Security System has devolved into just another entitlement, which is the government’s way of saying that you are entitled to someone else’s property. The argument that we paid into the system, it’s our money, doesn’t hold water. Our money was lost to an incompetent system. That is not justification for using government force to take it from someone else.

If a private company operated a retirement fund this way it would be a crime. That fact alone should be enough to conclude that the Social Security System is illegal. The Act begins with the words "An act to provide for the general welfare" because they knew in 1935 that it was unconstitutional, but why let a little thing like the Constitution get in the way of such a good idea? Now universal health care sounds like a good idea, until you remember that the government is incapable of stewarding other people’s money.

You don’t have to be to be a constitutional scholar to tell what is and is not legal government activity. "All powers not granted to the United States by the Constitution" is not an ambiguous statement. The Constitution is a simple, straightforward document that was written to be understood by every citizen. Thomas Jefferson said that "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others". The purpose of the Constitution was to protect that liberty.

Our government was never intended to be a giver of rights, or a source of food, housing, health care, or anything else. It’s not just Welfare, disability and old age benefits. It’s billions in subsidies going to thousands of corporations whose product or service must now please the government instead of their customers. It distorts the market, destroys incentive, and shifts responsibility away from the individual to the collective.

Social Security will fail because it’s a Ponzi scheme, and Ponzi schemes always fail. The consistently overly optimistic Congressional Budget Office puts the collapse date for old age benefits at 2033, 2016 for disability payments. Obama Care will fail for the same reason. It will fail in the operating room, or more likely in the waiting room. It will fail because it replaces individual responsibility with government force. They decided that everyone is entitled to health care. So they passed a law that will confiscate enough property to pay for it, and there is only one place it can come from.

All of the wealth in any society comes from only one source, production. Mining, farming, and manufacturing, in other words, work. Everything the government is offering, welfare, Social Security, health care, subsidies, and the war on terror must be taken by force from people who work. Today’s retirees had a portion of there production confiscated their entire working life. We confiscate almost half of the production of today’s workers. Is this what you fought for?

Dan Fragoules
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Join Dale for a daily prayer at the beginning of Down on the Corner each weekday morning at 7:06.  We are proud to open our local programming with a prayer, as we recall 2 Chronicles 7:14, "if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

Special thanks to Baxter County Right to Life for providing the airtime each day for the morning prayer. 

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