Cat Food Commission soils the litterbox

There's an elephant in the room, and it's called the Cat Food Commission.

The Cat Food Commission is a common name for a shadowy government committee that's produced an output of unadulterated meanness that hasn't been seen in America since the Nazi wave of the mid-'90s.

The right-wing intelligentsia - with lots of help from the pop-up media - has long spread a Big Lie about Social Security. According to them, folks in the workforce who now pay into Social Security are funding seniors who currently get benefits - and that Social Security will go broke unless benefits are slashed and the retirement age is raised (again).

This is a lie, and it serves no purpose other than to deprive people of benefits they paid for. That used to be known as theft.

The truth is as simple as this: People paying into Social Security now are paying for their own future benefits - not the benefits of current recipients. If it goes broke, it's because of mismanagement.

The Cat Food Commission is an "independent" government committee charged with finding ways to "save" Social Security. They've tried to keep their doings secret, but little by little, their ideas leak out.

Among them: raising the retirement age, slashing benefits, and even abolishing cost-of-living increases.

Nice to know the Cat Food Commission is getting its ideas from The Onion.

Why is it called the Cat Food Commission? When the 104th Reich slashed Social Security and other benefits in the '90s, many elderly and other Americans were forced to live on dog food. Folks who didn't even have a dog could be seen at any supermarket filling their shopping carts with Gaines Burgers. The determination to force folks who worked hard and saved up money all their lives to rely on pet food lives on in the Cat Food Commish.

And the Cat Food Commission is hardly "independent." It's dominated by right-wing voices - despite being created by the Obama administration (under threats from right-wing members of Congress). The committee reads like a Who's Who of the government and corporate worlds.

You toiled like the dickens your whole life only to have these unthinking clods tell you to give up some of the benefits you've already paid for? Is that fair?

I'm going to be perfectly frank here. Why should there even be any conservatives on this panel? Let's be honest: Conservatives ran America for 28 years stopless, and they proved they couldn't govern competently. Understand? They governed through meanness and demagoguery.

The Cat Food Commission is empowered to submit legislation to Congress to be voted on up-or-down - with no changes or amendments allowed. If that happens, we're all up Bunk Gas Creek.

If there's a shortfall in paying for Social Security, maybe we ought to look at not giving big banks a huge bailout the next time they ask for it. Perhaps if so much money hadn't been squandered on useless wars in Iraq, there'd be more money to pay for Social Security now.

Don't let the Meow Mix Morons steal what you worked so hard for. If we all have to take to the streets to fight this robbery, so be it.