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.
How many people can
YOU send this to? Keep this going clear up thru the 2004
election!! We need to be heard.
Oh, yes.
Politicians will do this just after we get pigs to butcher
themselves.
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