Uncle Sam wants you!

Not the symbolic Uncle Sam, but Sam Johnson. Although he's been a member of Congress more than a quarter of a century, it's unlikely you've ever heard of him. He's a lawmaker who holds a congressional seat, but just sits in it, achieving so little he's unnoticeable.

But look out! Johnson has suddenly leapt into action. And we all need to take notice, because this Texas Republican has unveiled what he calls his "Plan to Permanently Save Social Security."

To get you to support the plan, Uncle Sam wants you to believe that this successful and very popular retirement program is "going bankrupt." He knows that's a lie, but he hopes it's a big enough lie to panic you into doing anything to save the program. Then to make his particular plan easy to swallow, he coats it with another lie, claiming that he's merely "modernizing," "updating" and "ensuring" the benefits and solvency of Social Security, which a big majority of Americans count on to avoid living out their golden years in stark poverty.

In fact, conniving old Uncle Sam's plan is to "save" Social Security by gutting it. The congressman's press release announcing his "Reform Act" doesn't even mention the key fact that it's entirely a scam, based on making workers keep paying the same 12.4 percent tax on their wages, but getting drastically less paid back to them when they retire. How much less? It would range from about 20 percent less to 69 percent less, adding up to a total cut of $11.6 trillion in promised benefits to America's workers.

It's bad enough that a so-called public servant would slap the middle class with such a raw deal, but worse that he tries to do it so dishonestly. Maybe he just doesn't care—after all, having been a congress critter for 28 years, not only can Johnson draw a big Social Security check, he can also get more than $70,000 a year from his congressional pension. What a deal! For Uncle Sam, that is.

For nearly half a century now, America's middle-class working families have been pummeled by corporate greedmeisters and their political henchmen. Haven't they been punished enough?