From: Ed Bobrow [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 10:26 AM
To: General List
Subject: FW: Hope you will pass this along
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From: Bob Vereen <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: Vereen & Associates, Inc.
Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:12:55 -0600
Subject: Hope you will pass this along
Some interesting info here which needs broad dissemination.
Bob
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE
REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT !
KEEP IT GOING!!!!
200 8 Election Issue !!
GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC. SEC.
This must be an issue in "200 8 ". 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 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..
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.
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? Better yet.....
How many people WILL you send this to??
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