Worth reading
> Subject: FW: retirement
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> > Subject: Retirement
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> >              PASS THIS ON TILL IT REACHES
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> >              EVERYONE BY ELECTION TIME
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> >  Our Senators and Congressmen don't pay in to Social Security, and, of
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> > course,  they don't collect from it. The reason is that they have a
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> > special retirement  plan that they voted for themselves many years
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> > ago. For all practical  purposes, it works like this: When they
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> > retire, they continue to draw their  same pay, until they die, except
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> > that it may be increased from time to time,  by cost of living
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> > adjustments. For instance, former Senator Bradley, and his  wife, may
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> > be expected to draw $7,900,000, with Mrs. Bradley drawing
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> > $275,000 during the last year of her life.
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> > This is calculated on an average life span for each. This would be well
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> > and  good, except that they paid nothing in on any kind of retirement,
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> > and neither  does any other Senator or Congressman. This fine
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> > retirement comes right out  of the General Fund: Our tax money.
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> >  While we who pay for it all, draw an average of $1000/month from
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> > Social  Security. Imagine for a moment that you could structure a
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> > retirement plan so  desirable that people would have extra deducted so
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> > that they could increase their own personal retirement income. A
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> > plan that works so well,  that Railroad employees, Postal Workers, and
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> > others who aren't in it, would clamor to get in.
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> >   That is how good Social Security could be, if only one small
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> > change were made. That change is to jerk the Golden Fleece
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> > retirement out from under the Senators and Congressmen, and put them in
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> > Social Security with the rest of  us. Then watch how fast they fix
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> > it.
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> > If enough people receive this, maybe one or some of them along the
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> > way, might be able to help. How many can YOU send it to?
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> > P. S.
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> > ......... Al Gore helped draft this retirement
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> > bill.
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