Mark my words...IT WON'T HAPPEN.

   It won't happen. Mr. Obama threatened yesterday that those who receive Social Security checks may not get their check next month, in August. When I first heard him say this, it brought a shiver down my spine. That is exactly the response he wanted from me and everyone else who depends on their monthly check.
   Now, if in fact, we don't get our check in August, he will get the credit for warning the conservatives if the liberals don't get their way—it will be the Republicans at fault. On the other hand, if the checks keep on coming, he will take the credit for saving us from financial disaster. Either way, his irresponsible prediction will get him a predictable response.
   It won't happen. He knows it won't happen. Watch and see. We have no choice but to hold our breath and watch and see as the politicians continue to wring their hands and posture themselves as wise and prophetic. The next thing you are liable to hear from them is that to stave off such an economic disaster, one of our elected officials will recommend suspending congress's salaries until the crisis passes. That won't happen either, but it will make a good sound bite.
   The entire country will hold their breath while the politicians wring their hands and point their fingers across the aisle. The end result will be they will get what they wanted all along and we will be thankful for their wise and timely decision to forego disrupting the delivery of social security checks—this time. But they will continue to hold the threat over our heads for some time to come.We will re-elect them because they dodged the bullet for us. Getting re-elected is and has always been their number one priority. (I know that sounds too general a statement—stand up and show me I'm wrong and that you actually care more about the country's interests than yours.)
   The stock market will take a huge dip because of the uncertainty of our future. Unemployment numbers will increase—they were going to anyway. Housing markets will continue down. Yes, they were going to decline anyway. After saving our social security system, we will be told it was at the expense of raising taxes and cutting some other programs. We will have been told to look away while they give us the needle containing the medicine they were prescribing in the first place.
   There are no easy answers to the problems that beset us.They think we can't handle the truth. It has always been the best policy to tell the truth. It has always been the best policy to be fiscally responsible.
   It has always been the best policy to do for the American people what is in their best interests—not the interests of any special interest group.
   If you, your company or industry, your campaign contributors or party is benefiting by the eroding of our economy, the establishment of over-funded programs to help the poor, underemployed, undernourished, undocumented workers, and undeserving in order to secure their votes while cutting services to those that have funded our government through their Social Security taxes since 1937, (It was 3 years later, in 1940, before the first Social Security benefit was paid.) shame on you. Stop it! Come clean, do what is right.

   Please do what is right and in our best interests.