Latest anonymous e-mail going around....on social security

Has anyone else received this? Does anybody know where it originated? Any comments?

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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 congressperson 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.



How many people can YOU send this to?

Shame on those of us who view no-bid contracts as payoffs.


That letter is unbelievable.

...on this topic that have been circulating on the internet for years.

Total urban legend. Check out the facts here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/pensions.htm

of the same issue.

Thanks for debunking. I passed on the URL to others.

Note, please, how much congresscritters DO draw in retirement pay -- it's WAY more than anyone gets in their social-security check. I'd be overjoyed to be getting half of what they do.

Our congress really does not pay in to social security nor do they collect from it. there is a special retirement for them, just like railroad retirement. also they do get substantialy higher percentage of thier "on the job pay" than do social security recipiants. In the same bill that closed the opt-uot option for social security the congress created thier own retirement plan. Check the arcives of 60 minutes they di a story on it several years ago.

welcome to DU!! :toast: