2004 Election Issue!!>>GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC. SEC.>This must be an issue in "2004".
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 forpersons 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..>>For example, former 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.>>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.
