Post Office, Desperate Measures 2012?

DUMMY DON ...by Don Cole

Dummy Don ...Selling shoes

DUMMY DON ...by Don Cole

DUMMY DON --Desperate times for a needy government

DUMMY DON ...by Don Cole ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY, --talking back

...another point from me, DUMMY DON: Am I seeing the world through DUMMY eyes or something? I don't know; maybe I am just getting senile in my golden years. (or wiser?) One post commented just recently, "Who cares what you think?!" (gulp).

Well, here is my latest observation and wonderment about what is being broadcast over the air-ways about Social Security. Invariably, I see and hear the talking heads on TV doing such things as pointing to pie charts, showing how much money from our country's budget pays out to Social Secuity, thusly pointing out how we must make substantial cuts in Social Security. Well, what no one seems to realize is that the money being paid out, from the budget pie chart, is paid from the money COMING IN! If you do away with Social Security, --you also do away with that money COMING IN to create the pie chart in the first place! On top of that, the government often takes that money being paid into Social Security and uses it for other things.

I quote here from the recent Daily Record article, "Seniors; AARP's NEWS YOU CAN USE, Speak now to save Social Security, by Sy Larson, president of AARP New Jersey, who has a doctorate in political science:

"Social Security is financed through payroll contributions from employees and their employers, separate from the rest of the federal budget, and therefore has not contributed to our nation's large deficit.For the next 25 years, Social Security will be able to pay 100 percent of its benefits to all eligible recipients and 75 percent thereafter. This means that at some point, Congress will have to develop a plan to guarantee the long-term solvency of the program.However, Social Security should not be considered as an asset to help balance the nation's budget....... In fact, Social Security is the only source of income for 25 percent of older adults in New Jersey, the majority of whom are women."

Dummy Don ..."I plight thee thy troth"

DUMMY DON ...by Don Cole

Montville 'Turf Fairy' ?

DUMMY DON ...by Don Cole

Ref; Daily Record NJ 'Your Views' Letter, July 20, 2011, entitled: "There is no Montville 'Turf Fairy,' by Dan Pagano, Montville.

Dummy Don ...First date

DUMMY DON ...by Don Cole

"I USUALLY DON"T GET THIS INTIMATE ON THE FIRST DATE."

Dummy Don ...about Flat Tax

Am I missing something here? Everybody would pay the same percentage of tax on their income, no matter what? So, if one person's income is $5,000. per week his income tax would be, say on a 30% tax rate for everybody, --$1,500, which still leaves him with $3,500. per week to invest in forfeited real estate, or whatever, before he eventually has enough money and power to monopolize (like the game of monopoly) and take over our whole country, (or whatever). Compare this with with a senior citizen living on his Social Security checks , of about $200. per week (or less, and with COLAs frozen for three years now). 30% of $200. is $60. leaving the senior citizen with $140. per week to live on. Now the cost of rent, food, gas, heat, and other basic necessities to live being absolutely the same for everyone, who is going to be kicked over the cliff, or pushed out into the ocean currents on a raft to perish? Just because a person works hard all their life is no guarantee that they will never be in need (nor any of their family or loved ones). When things get even worse (and cheer up now, because things could be worse, --and probably will be.), such as in the Depression; should we revert back to businessmen jumping out of high-up skyscraper windows because the stock market collapsed? This ME-MYSELF-and I mentality is a crumbling foundation, or no foundation at all, and will never cure the ills of our nation. -- Dummy Don (ref: my comic strip, "Dummy Don.")

Dummy Don ...by Don Cole: Pick, pick, pick

Dummy Don ...by Don Cole

Watch for my new comic strip, "Dummy Don" ...by Don Cole

Watch for my new comic strip, “Dummy Don,” who is really Super Don in disguise Sometimes it is hard for people to know the difference, and the two characters often become intertwined; but it is easier for those who have eyes that see, and ears that hear. --dc