How You Can Help Save Social Security

by Allen Smith

Social Security is in deep financial trouble today, and, unless action is taken soon, the government may be unable to pay full benefits as early as 2015. Most Americans don’t know the true financial status of Social Security. How could they possibly know? There are so many versions of the truth being dispatched by various groups, and most of these groups have their own axe to grind. The American people need to have someone, or some organization, who is working on behalf of the public. If you think the AARP is doing that, think again. When I began my relentless effort to expose the great Social Security theft more than a decade ago, I contacted the AARP in an effort to get them to help expose the looting of Social Security. They weren’t even willing to communicate with me. In response to a letter I wrote to William Novelli, then CEO of the AARP, he sent me a short letter in which he scolded me for daring to even bring up the issue of the looting of Social Security by the government. He didn’t argue that looting was not taking place, but he was adamant about the importance of keeping the public from finding out about it.

This book covers the entire process of the emptying of the trust fund over a 30-year period. It starts in 1983 when President Reagan, with the help of Alan Greenspan, convinced the Congress and the public to approve a sharp increase in the payroll tax in order to regain some of the revenue lost as a result of the huge, unaffordable income tax cuts. That 1983 increase in the payroll tax was supposed to generate large surpluses in the Social Security fund for the next 30 years. This surplus revenue was supposed to be saved and invested so that it would be available to pay benefits to the baby boomers, who would begin retiring in 2010. A total of $2.7 trillion in surplus Social Security revenue was generated and every penny of the embezzled money was transferred to the general fund and used as general revenue. The government misappropriated, or embezzled every dollar of the $2.7 trillion, and spent the money on tax cuts for the wealthy, on unfunded wars and on other government programs.

The primary purpose of this book is to educate and inform the public that the government took $2.7 trillion from the trust fund and spent it on other things. The secondary purpose of the book is to urge the public to get involved and demand that the government repay the stolen money. The approximately 78 million baby boomers have protested and demonstrated for many other causes throughout their lives, and today duty calls once again. Don’t let the government get buy with stealing the Social Security money and trying to keep the public from finding out about the crime.

54 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 9, 2014

About the author

Allen Smith is a syndicated writer living in Oceanside, California. He is a three time award winner for America’s Funniest Humor and published thousands of articles in print, on the web and social media. Smith earned his master’s degree in exercise physiology from San Diego State University in 1983, where he worked in the country’s first cardiac rehabilitation program. He is also a certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist with the American College of Sports Medicine.

Smith has been featured on NBC News, ABC’s The View, KYSL Radio, The Hollis Chapman Show, TV8 Vail and Plum TV16. He has also been published in The Writer Magazine, Funny Times, the Professional Skier, Denver Post, Aspen Times and was a founding writer for Lance Armstrong’s wellness website, LIVESTRONG.COM. Smith was the Gear Editor from 2008-2011 for Onthesnow.com, the most visited winter sport website in the United States.

Smith’s first book, Ski Instructors Confidential: The Stories Ski Instructors Swap Back at the Lodge was published in 2005, is in its second printing and continues to sell around the world in book stores and on-line. His second book, Watching Grandma Circle the Drain was published in 2011 and has received rave reviews on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million and dozens of independent websites and blogs. He has also contributed to Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners (2010) and The Gigantic Armchair Reader (2008). His latest book, Monkey in a Pink Canoe was published in April, 2014 and earned the Best Humor Award from the Colorado Independent Publishers Association. For more information, please visit Smith directly here.