{"id":59871,"date":"2016-08-10T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59871"},"modified":"2016-08-06T18:56:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T23:56:46","slug":"insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59871","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Social Security admits out-go will exceed income in four years and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/policy\/docs\/ssb\/v75n1\/v75n1p1.html\"><span class=\"s2\">reserves will be exhausted in 2032 meaning the system will go bankrupt<\/span><\/a>, according to this chart:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-59879\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"image002\" width=\"476\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Congress could increase taxes or cut benefits to keep the system solvent but we all know that\u2019s politically impossible.\u00a0 Sarah Palin suggested Death Panels to kill off elderly ill but Democrats hated that idea (although if Democrats could stack the committee with IRS employees, they might be able to \u201cinvestigate\u201d Republican medical treatment candidates long enough until they die while Democrat candidates are whisked right through \u2013 the panel idea could become popular with Democrats again using that method).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The obvious solution is a massive employee die-off so we don\u2019t have to pay Social Security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Fortunately, working in an office increases your chance of an early death.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/the-active-times\/sitting-is-the-new-smokin_b_5890006.html\"><span class=\"s2\">Sitting is as bad as smoking<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0So office workers will start dying just about the time the system runs out of money, meaning all is proceeding according to plan if we don\u2019t let the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/07\/27\/office-workers-must-exercise-for-an-hour-a-day-to-counter-death\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Health and Wellness Nazis screw it up<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Not sure who to root for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Social Security admits out-go will exceed income in four years and reserves will be exhausted in 2032 meaning the system will go bankrupt, according to this chart: \u00a0 \u00a0 Congress could increase taxes or cut benefits to keep the system solvent but we all know that\u2019s politically impossible.\u00a0 Sarah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59880,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59871\/revisions\/59880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}