It is kind of like, "I am from the IRS and I am here to help you!!", if you’re stupid enough to believe that our so called government, is not putting the screws to us, just keep your head up in that dark place and keep wishing for hope and change.
The following was posted by Richard on Facebook and above was my comment. <https://www.facebook.com/RM.Blowers/posts/558413827505767> Richard Blowers Social Security SOCIAL SECURITY NOW CALLED 'FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENT'/ENTITLEMENT! Have you noticed, your Social Security check is now referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment"? I'll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a “Federal Benefit Payment.” This isn’t a benefit – its earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes. If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security. If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employer’s contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month. That’s almost three times more than today’s average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration (Google it - it’s a fact). And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts. Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They “forgot” that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn’t have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn’t pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently, they’ve told us that the money won’t support us for very much longer. But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they’re calling it a “benefit,” as if we never worked to earn every penny of it. Just because they “borrowed” the money, doesn't mean that our investments were a charity! Let’s take a stand. "Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience...without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure...If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." ---Ronald Reagan THE MESSAGE AND INFORMATION CONTAINED IN OR ATTACHED TO THIS EMAIL IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL, AND INTENDED ONLY FOR THE PERSON(S) NAMED ABOVE. THE MESSAGE AND ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTS ARE PROTECTED BY THE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS PRIVACY ACT, 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 2510-2521. IF YOU ARE NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT, PLEASE NOTIFY THE SENDER BY REPLY EMAIL THAT YOU RECEIVED THE EMAIL IN ERROR AND PLEASE DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY WITHOUT OPENING ANY OF THE ATTACHMENTS. THANK YOU. -- This is a Free Speech forum. The owner of this list assumes no responsibility for the intellectual or emotional maturity of its members. If you do not like what is being said here, filter it to trash, ignore it or leave. If you leave, learn how to do this for yourself. If you do not, you will be here forever.
