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Published - Brownsville Herald 3/6/2005 as “Government just wants to maintain its power”

Social Security just as with most of the other issues of the day such as: education, public assistance and public health care, the prohibition of the federal government to make laws with respect to religion, etc.; is more about centralizing power at the federal level and who holds the reigns of that power –really- getting re-elected. It has very little to do with “looking out for the folks”.
The two major political parties, work very hard to differentiate themselves by “talking about” differing ideological differences but when you really look; you see that the party of the working man that has repeatedly campaigned on the dangers coming to Social Security, civil rights for minorities and in the 1960’s a Democratic presidential candidate even espoused the “flat tax”. (I saw the speech)
On the other side “the party of the rich” is taking actions and accomplishing the goals of the “working man” and won over much of America outside the big cities. Read the rest of this entry »