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l Myth: The elderly have “earned” their Social Security and Medicare by their lifelong payroll taxes, which were put aside for their retirement. Not so. Both programs are pay-as-you-go. Today’s taxes pay today’s benefits; little is “saved.” Even if all were saved, most retirees receive benefits that far exceed their payroll taxes. Consider a man who turned 65 in 2010 and earned an average wage ($43,100). Over his expected lifetime, he will receive an inflation-adjusted $417,000 in Social Security and Medicare benefits, compared with taxes paid of $345,000, estimates an Urban Institute study. Robert J. Samuelson

No myth dipwit. Banked at compound interest, the last year interest alone would be enormous. And would bear interest for his lifetime. You are proposing the same as raiding his bank account! Just because you used his money for frivolous programs does not make it your money. It’s a real entitlement, not like your other “entitlements”.
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Frank J. Gaffney, Jr..

In 1892, Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about the paradigmatic British soldier, Tommy Atkins, and his paradigmatic treatment at the hands of an indolent democratic society that takes him for granted – until he is needed.  It read in part:

For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ ‘Chuck him out, the brute!’
But it’s ‘Saviour of ‘is country,’ when the guns begin to shoot.”

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Mona Charen.

I began noticing the white coating, dull film, and simply unclean dishes a few weeks ago. Naturally, I suspected that other members of my clan were failing to place dishes on the racks of the dishwasher properly. “If the water can’t reach it, it won’t get clean,” I lectured (not, ahem, for the first time), ostentatiously removing a small bowl that had been slipped under a larger one, no doubt by a person who clings to the discredited idea that dishwashers should be loaded to the gills. And those little separators in the utensil caddy — they are there for a reason, gentlemen!

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The President ordered the cabinet to cut a whopping $100 million from the $3.5 trillion federal budget!
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by Peg Luksik
This week hundreds of thousands of Americans will gather in Washington to march in peaceful protest of the Supreme Court decision that stripped our smallest children of their right to exist. They have been marching every year for over three decades.

Those who support the Supreme Court decision are equally adamant.

Abortion is the issue that never goes away.

The question is, why?

The answer has less to do with the actual act committed during an abortion, and more to do with the vision of America that each side represents.

It’s not a coincidence that many of the same groups that support abortion rights also are on the front lines of removing any reference to a Creator from the American public marketplace. If they succeed, this will be a completely different nation than the one that was created with the signing of the Declaration.

In the original vision, we recognized that each individual was endowed with rights by a Creator. Our entire system of government flows from that recognition. If we remove that premise, everything changes.

If there is no Creator, no one can have endowed rights. If rights are not endowed, they can not be inalienable. If there are no inalienable rights, it cannot be the purpose of government to protect them. If government was not instituted to protect the inalienable rights of its citizens, it cannot be judged by those citizens on its performance. If citizens do not have the authority to judge the performance of their government, they cannot act to change it. A government that cannot be judged or changed by its citizens is, by definition, a tyranny.

So, what does that have to do with abortion?

In legalizing abortion, the government declared that it had the authority to decide who was entitled to exist and who was not. It redefined the very existence of its citizens from a God-given inalienable right to a government entitlement. The fact that unborn children were the focus of this particular act of redefinition is irrelevant to the reality of the redefinition itself.

If the existence of one individual in America can be redefined from an inalienable right to an entitlement, the existence of every individual has been changed. The government may not have gotten around to touching everyone yet, but it has declared that everyone can be touched.

This is the reason that abortion is the issue that cannot be dealt with through compromise. Either we are a nation that recognizes that every citizen has God-given, inalienable rights, or we are not. Either we are a nation where the purpose of government is to protect the inalienable rights of its citizens, or we are not. It can’t be both ways.

With the death of every tiny child, America moves farther from the vision that created the beacon of hope that has shone around the world for over 200 years. Opposing abortion is not just about saving the precious lives of those children, it’s about saving the very soul of our nation. Both are well worth the effort.
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Burt Prelutsky
“When I used the Yiddish word ‘schlemiel’ in a recent article, a reader asked me to define it. I suggested it referred to a dummy, a dunderhead, a mental dwarf. I added that to help you identify them, they generally come with a (D) after their name. So it is that in King County, Washington, the schlemiels have now banned those non-tobacco cigarettes that emit vapor because, public officials have decided, kids might see grown-ups puffing air and conclude it is cool to smoke. … Although leftists like to insist that Hitler was a right-winger, he, himself, called his group the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi for short). One of his more perceptive observations in ‘Mein Kampf’ was that ‘All propaganda must be confined to a few slogans, repeated over and over again until the last man understands what they mean.’ Madison Avenue got the message long ago and came up with ‘Where’s the beef?’ to sell Wendy’s burgers, ‘Fast, fast, fast relief!’ to push Anacin and ‘Sometimes you feel like a nut’ to peddle Almond Joy candy bars. More recently, we’ve seen ‘Hope and Change’ used to sell us a left-wing pig in a poke.”
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Ronald Reagan
“I come before you to report on the state of our Union, and I’m pleased to report that after four years of united effort, the American people have brought forth a nation renewed, stronger, freer, and more secure than before. Four years ago we began to change, forever I hope, our assumptions about government and its place in our lives. Out of that change has come great and robust growth — in our confidence, our economy, and our role in the world. Tonight America is stronger because of the values that we hold dear. We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were. Our progress began not in Washington, DC, but in the hearts of our families, communities, workplaces, and voluntary groups which, together, are unleashing the invincible spirit of one great nation under God. Four years ago we said we would invigorate our economy by giving people greater freedom and incentives to take risks and letting them keep more of what they earned. We did what we promised, and a great industrial giant is reborn.”
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Walter Williams.

Think what might be the case if it were a political decision of whether there’d be football or golf watched on TV, whether we used Macs or PCs and whether we listened to classical music or rock and roll. Everyone had to comply with the politically made decision or suffer the pain of fines or imprisonment. Football lovers would be lined up against golf lovers, Mac lovers against PC lovers and rock and rollers against classical music lovers. People who previously lived in peace with one another would now be in conflict.

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By Burt Prelutsky
Consider that over 300 New York City sanitation workers made over $100,000-a-year. Their boss, John Doherty, is paid $205,000 for basically shaking down the city council. What’s more, during the December storms, the workers intentionally delayed snow removal in protest of six percent of their colleagues being laid off over the past two years because of the financial meltdown.
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Arnold Ahlert.

Being a writer makes one a reader, and this writer is no exception. Yet try as I might last week, I couldn’t find a single column blaming the American left for what Jared Loughner did in Tuscon. Not one. That is not to say that none existed. Perhaps some obscure publication or two created by some far-right fringe elements published screeds of which I am unaware. But nothing remotely compares to the avalanche of vitriol which spewed from high-profile, mainstream media sources such as the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC or Newsweek, all of which was not only easy to find, but almost impossible to avoid.

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