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hoosier 
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Posted on: Jan. 24 2004,11:04 am |
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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 Security 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"!
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.
Samthing could be said for a lot of our problems, make them the elite politicians problem also and see how fast it gets fixed. Unemployment? If its at 6 percent, send home 6 percent of the politicians, no pay.
Pay to low? Make the politicians wage be the average income for all Americans, if they want more money, they have to make things better for everyone.
When is our politicians going to stop giving themselves these sweet deals at our expense? Deals that you and I will never see, that is unless we become a public servant, LOL. Public servant? Just doesnt have the same meaning it did 50 years ago does it?
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The power of accurate obsvervation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
The devil begins with froth on the lips of an angel entering into battle for a holy and just cause. Grigory Pomerants
We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. Garet Garrett
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irisheyes
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Posted on: Jan. 24 2004,3:14 pm |
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The same is true about many federal workers, who started over something like twenty years ago. They wouldn't pay anything into Social Security, when they retired, they would be covered by their pension and other retirement savings plans. Works out well for them, because for what S.S. costs us, its not gonna pay out near as good as their pensions. For those of us that are younger, I doubt we'll ever see our money again anyway.
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You know it's going to be a bad day when you cross thread the cap on the toothpaste.
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minnow
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Posted on: Jan. 24 2004,3:57 pm |
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SS is slated for insolvency the year I retire. I'll pay in my entire life and then the young folks will cut me off and I'll have to just do my duty to die. Old people have a duty to die so as to save money...LOL 
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Cletus J. Borichter
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Posted on: Jan. 24 2004,4:01 pm |
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| Quote (Guest @ Jan. 24 2004,3:57:pm) | | I'll have to just do my duty to die. |
please hurry
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minnknow
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Posted on: Jan. 24 2004,4:04 pm |
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You first beotch!
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guppie
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Posted on: Jan. 25 2004,8:26 pm |
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just keep dieing, just keep dieing...
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I SURVIVED FISH KILL 2004
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