Barack Obama's Choice

If the US debt ceiling is not raised, whether Social Security recipients receive their checks is entirely left to President Barack Hussein Obama's discretion, as that power is vested in the executive branch of the Federal government. If the Social Security stipends are delayed, it should certainly put the lie to the notion that a "Social Security lock box" ever existed and prove Social Security to be no more than another ponzi scheme run by the government. SSI and Social Security Disability Insurance payments could still go out though as the Federal government still takes in between two and three hundred billion dollars a month and after servicing the debt, would still have ample cash left to pay Social Security recipients, veterans' benefits, and the cost of waging the wars, if only Obama would make the decision to cut somewhere else- but he will not- preferring to politic the issue for all he and his cabal think it is worth. Today is not the mid-1990s though, where Bill Clinton and his main stream media flacks were able to place blame on the GOP for that Federal government shut down, and there is enough alternate media to combat the pro-Obama spin from the dinosaur press trying to place the default onus solely on the Republican Party.