The Social Security Administration is under the department of the Treasury, so you get to deal with Secret Service Agents. My attorney and I met with the Secret Service at their Phoenix, AZ office. After explaining the circumstances the Secret Service were cool with the whole thing.
Thinking that would be the end of the matter, I was quite surprised when the SSA started making their harassing phone calls. The Secret Service agents were aghast and promised to handle the calls. Guess what? SIX years later I was still being harassed and threatened with Federal prison time by the SSA. The agents, who by now were personal friends (really!), couldn't stop the harassment and expressed contempt for the whole system.
For six years I was bombarded with calls from semi-literate SSA clerks, and wondered every day if I was going to be hauled off in handcuffs, even though the Secret Service assured me that would never happen.
My attorney actually felt so bad he returned almost the entire fee I had paid him (when the hell does that ever happen?), but to this day I am phone phobic and almost never answer the phone.
But, guess what? I won. I'm sure many others are not so lucky. My attorney described the whole thing like being caught in a giant meat grinder that was not equipped with an off switch. Remember that old adage, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help?" Don't ever, ever believe that. And these are the people that will be handling your health care if Obama gets his way. Be afraid, be very afraid!
Why Fear Big Government?
by Victor Davis Hanson
There is no reason to review all the standard reasons why the American people are terrified of an all-powerful federal or state government. The case has been made in thousands of elegant treatises and books, and is best reflected in the Constitution and the written work of the Founding Fathers.
But let me list a few other, less elegantly expressed worries, many anecdotal in nature. read the rest
Are you getting your Lenten reading all lined up? Only one week until Ash Wednesday.
May I suggest:
