In the Vietnam debacle the war turned into a quagmire because the politicians tried to run a limited war without any plan to win. The war was run by a political arm chair general located in Washington D.C, whose name was Lyndon B. Johnson, a sorry excuse for a President if there ever was one, second only to Jimmy Carter.

Liberal Ted Kennedy, senator from Massachusetts, called Iraq a quagmire which was and is anything but which shows how much Kennedy knows about deep mud holes. He is more familiar with deep water, if you get the drift. His liberal buddies also have no clue about quagmires and the developing scenarios with Social Security and Medicare is proof of his lack of knowledge of less than solid ground.

The liberal Democrats think that the legacy of FDR should be sacred and never touched. Thanks to him socialism had its birth in this nation and ever so slowly government began to take over the responsibilities that should be left to individuals. Social Security is one of them. As great as it sounded back then it has grown to be a monster that threatens to devour a large portion of the tax resources of the nation if the program isn’t changed. It stands to reason that a program that demands more and more resources from an ever dwindling number of those who pay into it can’t survive indefinitely. The longer it goes without a repair and restructuring the deeper the in the hole it will go.

Of course, tolder citizens demand that nothing change. They claim they paid in all those years and they want what they paid. They should have that amount and have gotten it, because what they paid in has already been given to them in most cases for those who have been receiving payments for any length of time. The more the system pays out the deeper the hole because the money going out belongs to those paying it in, not those receiving it. In legal terms it is called a ponzi scheme.

Another problem is Medicare, a Lyndon Johnson legacy. The states don’t want to assume more of the cost and the governors can’t be blamed for not wanting the burden. There isn’t enough money in states to pay the bill and the federal government doesn’t have it either without raising taxes or cutting spending in other areas. You know which one it will be when push comes to shove.  

Rob Reiner, who was called Meat Head by Archie Bunker (Carroll O’Conner) on All in the Family, wants more spending and higher taxes which are easily translated to mean more and bigger government. He wants to increase the burden on those who make more to help those who make less, the true ideology of socialism/communism. Archie was right when he called him a Meat Head.

The tax payers are facing problems of monumental proportions in trying to fund Social Security and Medicare. Unless something is done there won’t be enough money to pay the bills on down the road. The answer is to return the responsibilities of health care and retirement to the people where it belongs. But the likes of liberals, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Blanche Lincoln et al in the Senate and Mike Ross, Charlie Rangel et al in the House want to keep the people from handling their own affairs.

Their opposition to change is nothing more than politics of those who can’t stand to see the legacy of FDR and LBJ go to their deaths as all socialistic schemes will in the end. FDR and LBJ strayed form the Constitution and paved the way for the problems of today. The liberals in Congress don’t want to budge. All they want to do is dig the hole deeper and drive us farther into total socialism, a true quagmire from which we can’t recover.   

© 03-03-2005 DEC