New Name for our Social Security Checks, "federal benefit payment"

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   OLYHOOCHposted 12 years ago

   Have you noticed, your Social Security check is now referred to as a
   "federal benefit payment"?
   
   I'll be part of the one percent, to forward this, our government gets
   away with way too much in all areas of our lives, while they live lavishly
   on their grossly overpaid incomes! KEEP passing THIS AROUND UNTIL EVERY
   ONE HAS READ IT.....
   
   SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THIS CALCULATION IS THEY FORGOT TO FIGURE IN THE PEOPLE WHO DIED BEFORE THEY COLLECTED THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY!!!! WHERE DID THAT MONEY GO?????????????
   
   This was sent to me, I am forwarding it because it does touch a nerve
   in me.
   
   This is another example of what Rick Perry called "TREASON in high
   places" !!! Get angry and pass this on!
   
   Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your
   employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you
   averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500.
   
   If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your
   employer's contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the government
   pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working you'd have
   $892,919.98.
   
   If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year
   and it would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at
   age 65) and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit!
   If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime
   income of $2,976.40 per month.
   
   The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than
   Bernie Madhoff ever had.
   
   Entitlement my butt, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!!
   Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't make my benefits some kind
   of charity or handout!!
   
   Congressional benefits ---- free health care, outrageous retirement
   packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick
   days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my social
   security retirement entitlements?
   
   We're "broke" and can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans,
   Homeless.
   
   In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile , and Turkey .
   And now Pakistan ......home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of
   DOLLARS!!!
   
   Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do
   they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour
   Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!
   
   They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most
   of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when it’s time
   for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the
   government borrow from it in the first place? Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT*
   gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.
   
   Sad isn't it?
   
   99% of people won't have the guts to forward this.
   
   I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did.

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      Barbara Kayposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I resent them calling it that. I don't get SS yet, but we paid in for this.

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      Ralph Deedsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Misleading drivel and lies.

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      ptosisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Yup, I had to explain to my bitchy sister that I am not on welfare (SSI) but on disability (SSDI) and that I paid into that with every hour I worked. That's why it's called insurance. Just like there is no shame in collecting Unemployment Insurance. You don't bitch at the person collecting fire insurance when their house got burnt down.....
      
      SSDI is NOT a need a based benefit based on low-income like food stamps.

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         OLYHOOCHposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         ptosis. It is hard trying to get your point across to our younger Generation these days.
         
         I am in the same boat you are in. SSDI, and, SSI, are not hand out's.
         
         OLY.

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         Ralph Deedsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         +++

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   Wizard Of Whimsyposted 12 years ago

   

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      Ralph Deedsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Amen. ALEC's influence is one of the most evil in the world since Nazi Germany.

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   Ron Montgomeryposted 12 years ago

   Th Kochs is worser even then Hitler....

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   Wizard Of Whimsyposted 12 years ago

   

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   Hugh Williamsonposted 12 years ago

   Helpful Definitions:
   
   Conservative - Someone who doesn't want taxpayer money spent on frivolous social programs.
   
   Liberal - A conservative who just discovered that his Social Security went south.

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