becauseHElives
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> Subject: LET'S WAKE UP > > > Remember this when you go to vote next week. > > > (This is worth the read. It's short and to the point.) > > Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years. Our > Senators and Congressmen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, > they do not collect from it. Social Security benefits were not > suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. > > They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. 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), > with their wives drawing $275,000.00 during the last years of their lives. > This is calculated on an average life span for each. > > Their cost for this excellent plan is $00.00. 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 $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 (l) month to equal > Bradley's > > Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made. And > 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 and then 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? > >
-------------------- Strive to enter in at the strait gate:for many, I say unto you will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. ( Luke 13:24 )
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