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Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 5:57
AM
Subject: RE: [Sndbox] Any Truth To
This?
Far as I know it is
true.
Charles
Mims
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 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?
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