Social Security Warns Benefits Could Get Cut

Wall Street Journal – by DAMIAN PALETTA

The Social Security Administration has begun warning the public it cannot guarantee full benefit payments if the debt ceiling isn’t increased.

When asked by the public, the agency is notifying beneficiaries that “Unlike a federal shutdown which has no impact on the payment of Social Security benefits, failure to raise the debt ceiling puts Social Security benefits at risk,” according to a person familiar with the agency directive.  

The warning was assembled after the agency consulted with the Treasury Department, which would play a lead role in determining how the government handles payments if the borrowing limit isn’t raised soon.

“Our employees started receiving questions from the public, so the agency worked with Treasury to provide an answer they could use when asked about the debt ceiling by the public,” a Social Security Administration spokesman said.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/10/07/social-security-warns-benefits-could-get-cut/

3 thoughts on “Social Security Warns Benefits Could Get Cut

  1. Americans paid the money into the account for social security. We own the money. Politicians aka thieves stole it. We want it back and might as well take it all now in one lump payment to every american citizen that has paid into it.
    The theft and bs must stop now. BO is in office to destry the country and we cannot be like the germans and let it happen. Wake up. Stop cooperating and take the country back, or just lay down and give up like the jelly fish they think you are.

  2. When ALL, not some, but ALL foreign aid, foreign economic aid, foreign military aid is stopped then – and only then, can they start messing with the US people. We have had enough.

    Here are the laws that those serving within the federal government have broken – and these are NOT all of them, there are more – that we need to start arresting and prosecutions of:

    28 C.F.R. Section 0.85 Terrorism: “the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives”.
    Domestic terrorism is the unlawful use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual based and operating entirely within the United States or Puerto Rico without foreign direction committed against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives.

    18 USC § 241 – Conspiracy against rights: If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
    If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
    They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
    {I am all for the death penalty for all who followed unlawful orders and kidnapped American citizens and illegally “detained” (imprisoned) them.}

    42 USC § 1983 – Civil action for deprivation of rights…

    5 U.S.C. 3331, provides the text of the actual oath of office the three branches of our government, the military, all law enforcement, the heads of the States, all federal employees are required to take before assuming office. (5 U.S.C. 3331: “An individual, except the President, elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed services shall take the following oath: ‘I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.’”)

    5 U.S.C. 3333 requires the three branches of our government, the military, all law enforcement, the heads of the States, all federal employees sign an affidavit that they have taken the oath of office required by 5 U.S.C. 3331 and have not or will not violate that oath of office during their tenure of office as defined by the third part of the law. (5 U.S.C. 3333: “…an individual who accepts office or employment in the Government of the United states…shall execute an affidavit within 60 days after accepting the office or employment that his acceptance and holding of the office or employment does not or will not violate section 7311 of this title. The affidavit is prima facie evidence that the acceptance and holding of office or employment by the affiant does not or will not violate section 7311 of this title.”)

    (Federal law specifically prohibits any individual from accepting or holding any position (including elected office) in the United States Government if he advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government. 5 U.S.C. 7311 (1): “An individual may not accept or hold a position in the Government of the United States of the government of the District of Columbia if he (1) advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government…” 
    Advocate: To plead in favor of: defend by argument before a tribunal or the public : support or recommend publicly. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary
    Advocate: To speak in favor of or defend by argument. To support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. Black’s Law Dictionary )

    18 U.S.C. 1918 provides penalties for violation of oath of office described in 5 U.S.C. 7311 which include: (1) removal from office and; (2) confinement or a fine. (18 U.S.C. 1918: “Whoever violates the provisions of section 7311 of title 5 that an individual may not accept or hold a position in the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia if he (1) advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government [and] shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year and a day or both.”)

    5 U.S.C. 7311 which explicitly makes it a federal criminal offense for anyone employed in the United States Government to “advocate the overthrow of our constitutional form of government”.
    Executive Order 10450: In order to instruct investigating federal officials such as the FBI as to what is a violation of the oath of office under 5 U.S.C. 3331 and 5 U.S.C. 7311, Executive Order 10450 was issued to serve as a guideline for determining what actions constituted a criminal violation of the oath of office by federal officials. The order affirms the law of 5 U.S.C. 7311 that is a criminal violation under 18 U.S.C. 1918 for a member of the government, which includes members of Congress, to “advocate the overthrow of our constitutional form of government.”

    Executive Order 10450 states (in part): “Whereas the interest of the national security require that all persons privileged to be employed in…the Government shall be reliable, trustworthy, of good conduct and character, and of complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States… it is hereby ordered as follows:
    (a) The investigations conducted pursuant to this order shall be designed to develop information as to whether the employment or retention in employment…of the person being investigated is clearly consistent with the interests of the national security. Such information shall relate, but shall not be limited, to the following:
    (4) Advocacy of use of force or violence to overthrow the government of the United States, or of the alteration of the form of the government of the United States by unconstitutional means.”

  3. Here is a thought:
    Israel gets 3 billion in aid each year from our tax dollars.
    The military War Machine Defense spending 2012 was $553 BILLION.
    The U.S. Agency for International Development pumps out $50 Billion to other Countries.
    Obama spent $5 million on Crystal glass on the eve of the Government shutdown.
    Obama is letting the illegal aliens have a rally on one of the lawns that is shut down in Washington, if this isn’t a kick to the groin to The Founding Fathers. WTF are they thinking..
    This is just a drop in the bucket..WAKE THE F**K UP PEOPLE.
    Your Government doesn’t give 2 shit’s about “We The People” of the United States.
    I hope your all as PISSED OFF as I am. I hate to say this but were about to start some very, very tough times ahead, I hope I am wrong because it is going to be messy.
    When all the people who are on unemployment and food stamps find out they are no longer getting the benefits they will riot. I think these people will be the first to arrive at the FEMA camps. The Government will trick them by saying there will be food and shelter there. We can only hope.

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