Congress get's a golden retirement and we get SS?

I just wonder why Congress can't fix the problems with Social Security. Actually, I believe I know. They have no incentive to. They aren't stuck swallowing Social Security like we are. In fact they have a golden retirement plan! And it's free for them, we foot the bill!

Yes, on average, we can expect to get a mere $1000 a month from our Social Security accounts when retire. That is if it is still there when we retire. (And it is not an entitlement, we've been paying into it all our working lives!) But a Congressperson will receive their full pay at retirement until they die, and it costs them nothing. They may get pay increases for cost of living increases and their spouses also draw about $275,000.00 a year for being a spouse of a Congressperson for their retirement years.

Now why would they care about changing the Social Security System? They aren't invested in it. Now if they had to retire on the same system we had to retire on, well now, they might have some reason to work on fixing it. Or even better, why not scrap Social Security and give the American people the retirement plan that Congress has? Why are we swallowing this system that is handed to us? Why are we just accepting the status quo? And not just on this issue but on Medicare, Prescription Drugs prices (and being able to buy them from Canada), the war in Iraq, illegal Immigration, warrantless wireless wiretaps, the erosion of our civil liberties in the name of security? No matter how you feel about these issues, participating in the conversation is your patriotic duty. Have an opposing opinion to the Administration does not diminish you patriotism, expressing that opinion is your duty and your right as an American citizen. So express yourself, be an American CITIZEN! Stop swallowing the status quo. Get up and do something. Start with Social Security. Question your representative or senator, find out why they are so much better than you to deserve such a great retirement.

Smoking and Movies

Well apparently we need more help in choosing what is appropriate for our children to see at the movies now. We are supposed to be swallowing this line of crap that we need censors to pre-screen films and then tag them with a new rating if they contain an actor smoking. I agree smoking is terrible for our health and our children's health, no argument here about that. But what about personal responsibly? What about the hypocrisy of it all? I mean beer an alcohol kill more teens than do cigarettes, right? And alcohol certainly impacts more families with children in this country and yet you don't hear calls to add more ratings to films that contain alcohol do you? Nor do you hear of the Super Bowl asking if it would be alright if they dropped their sponsorship agreement with the beer companies. Sounds like we live in a hypocritical society. Why not just sit our kids down and talk with them. How much good does a ratings system do anyway? I just want to go to movies more if I wasn't allowed to go. Why is talking to kids that much harder? And if they are going to smoke, they're going to smoke. Try to stop them, do everything in your power to stop them, but know it's an uphill fight.