IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT!
KEEP IT GOING!!!!
2008 Election Issue!!
GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC. SEC.
This must be an issue in "2008" 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, 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 see 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.
The email had all of this in large fonts and in colored fonts.
I know that Congress is always passing bills it exempts itself from. One of them is the salary cap they place on federal workers.
At one time all federal employees could invest in the federal government employees retirement plan instead of social security. I don't think that was part of the Congressional retirement plan. I don't know what the rules are now.
Congress does not work on a merit system. When they decide they want a pay raise, they simply give themselves a pay raise whether they deserve it or not. Who is there to tell them they can't? Wouldn't it be nice if their home state controlled how much they made instead of the system they have today? Perhaps we need federal apartment complexes for members of congress. The apartment is provided instead of the extra salary for maintaining two residences. If the congressman is wealthy, he can live elsewhere and allow a staff member to occupy his assigned space -- but he does that on his own dime, not ours.
Perhaps this email was correct. Members of Congress are our public Servants. Maybe we need to remind them of this. They are supposed to answer to their constituents, and not to large business interests.
Perhaps, they need to learn to live like the rest of us -- on a budget.
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