Good morning!
Today’s newspaper contained an article that set my heart rejoicing! There is finally something in our country that has forged a common bond betwixt myself and members of the democrat party.
The article I refer to is in the 9/24 edition of the Orange County Register. In this article, written by Brian Joseph, one finds out that multiple democrat politicians- Dianne Feinstein, Loretta Sanchez, Jose Solorio, Susan Davis, Beth Krom and multiple other democrats- were defrauded of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars. A Ms. Kinde Durkee, a campaign treasurer for the democrat party, has been accused by the federal government of mail fraud and was recently arrested by the FBI on these charges. http://articles.ocregister.com/2011-09-03/news/30117033_1_fbi-arrests-campaign-treasurer-kinde-durkee Ms. Durkee was entrusted with reportedly millions of campaign fund dollars by these and other politicians.
Dianne Feinstein is now in the process of suing not only Ms. Durkee, but also the First California Bank. http://totalbuzz.ocregister.com/2011/09/23/feinstein-sues-durkee-first-california-bank/63413/#more-63413
In her lawsuit, Ms. Feinstein alleges that Ms. Durkee and her co-defendants ”stole millions of dollars” from Feinstein and others over a two-year period. Apparently, Ms. Feinstein feels that the First California Bank and the other defendants, an institution and people who were entrusted with the safekeeping of millions of campaign dollars, betrayed that trust! It seems that Ms. Feinstein and others of the democrat party are truly aggrieved that the money they were counting on for their political needs is no longer available. (please shed tears of empathy for these unfortunate souls!)
And how, pray tell, does this dire misfortune that has befallen these champions of the people, these public-spirited civil servants tie in with the ol’ Doc?
Well, for the past 48 years I’ve been working. Started out mowing lawns for neighbors; worked for the old Santa Ana Register (that is now the Orange County Register), tossing papers every morning 8 days a week; worked in a nursery and did landscaping installation while in high school and college; worked in a local hospital, St. Jude Hospital, as a file clerk, a transport orderly and EKG tech to pay my way through Loyola University. Then, worked my way through med school with the help of my then-wife. Today, I work as a Family Physician and have been for the past 30 years.
During all of this time, my bosses were collecting my Social Security(and Medicare when it grabbed hold of the American public by the throat). As I recall, Social Security(SS) had been started as a trust fund that would always remain solvent, intended to be a “safety-net” for the elderly if they should fall on hard times. The public was told that their payments into the system would never go above 3% of their paychecks, back in 1949. SS was not envisioned-by the general public- to include payments to families and dependents long after the individual had died. However, I’m quite sure the “progressives” of that time had many plans and uses contemplated for SS, which have been implemented over the years.
Getting back to this new “connect” between the democrat party and me….now the dems know how the rest of us Americans are feeling about our “Social Security”.
For the past 75 years, the American people have been told that their money is safe in the “trust” fund. We’ve been told that SS is “solvent” and that it will always “be there”. Whenever anyone raised a cry that the fund wasn’t taking in enough to match the pay-outs, they were told to shut up, to avoid the “third rail”.
Well, here we are, the fund is now propped-up by IOU’s and by the Chinese buying our bonds. The fund has been bled dry by the politicians as they continue to make promises they won’t have to keep because they’ll be long gone after making their millions in DC cutting deals and soaking the taxpayers.
The only problem we Americans have is that we can’t sue the federal government for the fraud that they have perpetrated on us, as Ms. Feinstein and her democrat friends have the option to do. In fact, the mail fraud as perpetrated by Ms. Durkee pales in comparison to the fraud that is perpetrated by Ms Feinstein, her democrat allies and many like-minded “rino” republicans. The fraud perpetrated by the federal government is a Ponzi scheme covered up by the noble term “social security trust fund”. As a matter of fact, there is a BIG difference between the Ponzi scheme offered by Bernie Madoff and that of the federal government.
The Ponzi scheme is a voluntary commitment of funds made by investors/suckers; the “social security” Ponzi scheme is a matter of forced extortion of the money from the citizens of this country, enacted by a “benevolent” Congress.
So, my heart goes out to Di and her democrat allies as they shuffle through the federal courts, trying to regain the funds that were stolen from them by their democrat operative.
My question is- where do the American people go to get back the money that’s been taken from them by the federal Ponzi scheme?

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