Here's an extremely interesting `e-mail` I received. I thought you all would be interested in reading this. Give me your thoughts on it!
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT!
> KEEP IT GOING!!!!
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> 2008 Election Issue!!
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> 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.)
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> Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years.
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> Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it.
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> 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 .
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> In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan.
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> For all practical purposes their plan works like this:
> When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die.
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> Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments..
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> This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries. 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.
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> Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives.
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> 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;
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> "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.
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> 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!
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> Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made.
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> 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.
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> If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve.
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Note from me: I think we should just switch things up a bit. Let's put THEM in the Social Security plan...and we'll take the plan that they now have. What do y'all think??