Subject: Fw: Please keep this going



GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC. SEC.



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 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 Bird 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

Concerned > wrote in message . com>...
> Subject: Fw: Please keep this going
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> GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC. SEC.

No Federal employee collects Social Security. No state employee
collects Social Security. We are all dependent on a fed or state
pension plan and it isn't that wonderful. Do come more research before
you come up with crack-brained plans.

This has nothing to do with food...

Tashi_Aunt > wrote:

> No Federal employee collects Social Security. No state employee
> collects Social Security. We are all dependent on a fed or state
> pension plan and it isn't that wonderful. Do come more research before
> you come up with crack-brained plans.

i don't doubt what you say, but our elected officials sure do well
as far as a pension plan and other retirement benefits are concerned.

> This has nothing to do with food...

Buying food without money is difficult. Its a stretch, but I
did not begin this thread.