Yoo-Hoo Social Security, Where Are You?

Have you ever received the letter summing up your reported income and how much you have paid into Medicare and Social Security.  Normally, once a year after you have done your taxes this handy little info-guide to your retirement shows up asking you to take a look at the reported income and make sure it is accurate.  It then tells you what your family/spouse would receive upon your demise and whether you have made enough to request Medicare at the age of 65.  I always find these letters entertaining.  It amazes me to see that if I would croak tomorrow, I am actually worth more dead than alive.  I have worked, in my lifetime, a total of 19 years.  The income I have generated allows for a nice monthly payment to go to Chuck to help with the kids.  Since I am a stay at home mom right now, any money that he would receive is more than I am making now.  So really I am worth more dead than alive(monetarily).  But, here is where it becomes absurd.  

In this letter it also explains how Social Security is used and how it has been distributed.  The latest letter(we received this week)tells us that if WE do not do ANYTHING about the current state of Social Security, by the year 2040 it will be gone.  WHAT!  Where is all the money going?  According to their statistics, the money being paid out in Social Security has doubled in the last 20 years and they see this becoming the trend.  Ooooh – many questions filled my head.  So I will ask them and let all of you give me the answers.

1.  Why do WE have to DO something about it?  Where the hell are all of our elected officials in Washington?  Oh I forgot.  They are too busy campaigning and slamming the leader of the free world to worry about their constitutents.

2.  Where is Al Gore and his little black lockbox when we need him?  I kid.  Or am I?  That lockbox sounds like a good idea right now, but he is too busy telling me how to save the Earth.  Why do I need to go “green” now when I may not get any “green” when I am 65.

3.  Is my pending SS money going to illegal aliens?  I don’t know and some of you may think that is an ignorant question, but COME ON PEOPLE.  We have people sneeking in from Mexico to come to this country to “seek a better life” and to live “in the melting pot of the world”.  Fine.  But could you at least have the courtesy to learn English.  You snuck in, now give me a reason to WELCOME you by learning to speak our language.  At least years ago immigrants came on a boat passing the Statue of Liberty and upon reaching the shore got down on their hands and knees and kissed the land.  They were appreciative and I welcome them for that.  Do you think that when they crawl over a fence in the black of night they stop for a second and kiss the ground?  I digress.

4.  Where in the hell are the people in Washington?  Oops.  I already asked that question.  I forgot.  The Democrats are too busy trying to rally votes for an Immigration bill and the Republicans are too busy worrying if Fred Thompson is going to enter the Presidential race.

So ladies and gentlemen I guess we do have to solve this problem ourselves.  My solution would be to start stashing your money under your mattress like our grandmothers used to do – but don’t let Elisabeth Hasselbeck know because she would think you were breaking a marriage vow by hiding money from your husband.  In the words of my mother:”Whatever”.