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The following article came to our attention through
e-mail circulation, and we thought it was important
enough to publish in this section of our website. It
relates to how our Senators and Congressmen, who
routinely use threats to Social Security as a
political issue and scare tactic, are themselves
ripping off the same constituents who voted them in!
Here it is... read it and weep. But then, if you're
as angry as we are, copy and paste it into an e-mail
message and send it to everyone you know!
Our Senators and Congressmen don't pay
into Social Security, and, of course, they don't
collect from it. The reason is that they have a
special, "privileged" retirement plan that
they voted for themselves many years ago. For all
practical purposes, it works like this:
When they retire, they continue to draw their same
pay until they die, except that it may be increased
from time to time by cost of living adjustments. For
instance, former Senator Bradley and his wife, may
be expected to draw $7,900,000, with Mrs. Bradley
drawing $275,000 during the last year of her life.
This is calculated on an average life span for each.
This would be well and good, except for the fact
that they paid nothing in... not one red cent into
any retirement account of any kind for their
enormous returns, and neither does any other Senator
or Congressman. This "privileged"
retirement benefit comes right out of the General
Fund: our tax money while we, who pay for it all,
draw an average of $1000 per month from Social
Security. Imagine for a moment that you could
structure a retirement plan so desirable that people
would willingly have extra deducted so that they
could increase their own personal retirement income.
A retirement plan that works so well, that Railroad
employees, Postal Workers, and others would clamor
to participate. That is how good Social Security
could be, if only one small change were made. That
change is to jerk the "Golden Fleece"
retirement out from under the Senators and
Congressmen, and put them back into the main Social
Security pool with the rest of us. Then watch
how fast they fix it!
This information will no doubt be an eye-opener for
many of you. If enough people receive this, maybe
some along the way might get angry enough to do
something about it. One way is to inform everyone
you know.
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