Social Security – Lookout!

Here we go.  On the Social Security Bypass.  Taxi on to this new runway, bring up the power of your engines and proceed on take-off roll.  But. . . .

Well, it begins with the Air traffic controllers.  They’re laid off.  Some of them.  Their still-working compatriots begin dragging through the regulations.  Everything is being be done TOTALLY  by the book. Everything slows down, especially the take-offs.  Delays happen.  They build up. They backlog each other.  The public is unhappy.  They sit around with nothing to do.  They sit in waiting rooms and get bored.  They use their cell phones to call their  representatives and senators – and they’re mad as hell!  

The Republicans blame Obama. They say when he responded to problems of the sequester, that he “intentionally” picked on the controllers to lay-off so that would make the public unhappy.  Boehner and Cantor and  McConnell are going to march to the White House, seize Obama by the political throat and “make” him put the controllers back on duty, and lay-off some body else instead.  

Well, by now we all know where this is heading.  Somebody else may well be laid-off, before that builds up pressure, then another group, but pretty soon Obama won’t be able to cut ANY program under the sequester restrictions because that shows he is trying to hurt the Republicans.  So eventually he will have to take all the cuts out of Social Security and Medicare.   At any rate, that’s the new Republican plan.

Well, we’ll see.  Meanwhile, it wouldn’t hurt to contact the White House (1202-456-1111 or http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact)  Also call your senators – mainly Burr (1202-224-3154), and also call Hagen and congratulate her for her fine work. (1202-224-6342).  Your representatives also might need some guidance.