Speak Out 1/24/12

Get facts straight

I am writing in response to a Speak Out in the paper, Jan. 5th, 2012, entitled, "Sucking the System Dry."

The caller obviously is uninformed on the creation of the Social Security. President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Bill in 1932, to insure the American people would never again face bread lines because of the stock market crash in 1929.

This Social Security Bill was not and is not a retirement program. It was signed into law as a safety valve to augment retirement plans, pensions and other incomes. The money allotted to Social Security was to be kept in a trust account. This was originally done and then members of Congress decided to borrow from the fund and they never paid the money borrowed back into the Social Security account. Many people in this country think as the writer does that it is a retirement pan, you as a citizen should have planned for your own retirement and not expect the government to take care of you. There is nothing in the Constitution that says the federal government will take care of all your needs. The federal government is only suppose to defend its citizens from foreign invaders.

Before you write comments for publication, get your facts straight. Do not make erroneous statements as those you made in your comments.

I appreciate your printing this response letter.

What's historic?

The City doesn't care about how the raising of prices effects anybody. All they're thinking about is the supposedly historical downtown which will never be historical 'cause everything that's historical they've tore down.