Posted by
Roxanna M. on Monday, May 16, 2011 1:33:37 PM
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has threatened that unless congress votes to raise the debt ceiling, he "will begin to borrow from retirement funds for federal workers" in order to have enough money to pay Uncle Sam's bills.
Well, it's about time.
Pull out every single dime from every single pension account of every single member of congress for the last 50 years and then put in IOU's, exactly like congress has been doing to We the People's retirement accounts, i.e., Social Security, for decades now.
It's long past time they got a taste of their own medicine. If the felons, past and present, thought for one minute that they would be as broke as they have made us, this debt ceiling problem would get fixed - and I mean right now.
But, I'd be willing to bet that the gold-plated retirement accounts of members of congress will be off limits, while the accounts of Mr. & Mrs. Everybody Else will be ripe for the picking.