Worth reading!!
GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC.
SEC.
2004 Election Issue!!
This must be an issue in "2004". Please! Keep it
going.
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SOCIAL SECURITY:
(This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.)
Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during
election years.
Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social
Security and, of course, they do not collect from it.
You see, Social Se! curity benefits were not suitable
for persons of their rare elevation in society. They
felt they should have a special plan for themselves.
So, many years ago they voted in their own
benefit plan.
In more recent years, no congress person has felt the
need to change
it. After all, it is a great plan.
For all practical purposes their plan works like this:
When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay
until they die.
Except it may increase from time to time for cost of
living adjustments.
For example, former Senator Byrd and Congressman White
and their wives may expect to draw $7,800,000.00
(that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand
Dollars), with their wives drawing $275,000.00 during
the last years of their lives.
This is calculated on an average life span for each of
those two Dignitaries.
Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will
receive much more during the rest of their lives.
Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00.
NADA....ZILCH....
This little perk they voted for themselves is free to
them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The
funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from
the General Funds;
"OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"!
Quoted message said:From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I
pay (or have paid)
into, -every payday until we retire (which amount is matched
by our employer)- we can expect to get an average of $1,000
per month after retirement.
Or, in other words, we would have! to collect our
average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and
one (1) month to equal Senator Bill Bradley's
benefits!
Social Security could be very good if only one small
change were made.
That change would be to jerk the Golden Fleece
Retirement Plan from under the Senators and
Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan
with the rest of us .. then sit back and watch how
fast they would fix it.
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of
awareness will be planted and maybe good changes
will evolve.
How many people can YOU send this to?
Keep this going clear up thru the 2004 election!! We
need to be heard