VOICE OF THE MAJORITY

Social Security -
Theft in Progress
And some of them try to tell us we cannot afford Social Security. (see cut and paste of articel below) The TRUTH about Social Security is there will not be a deficit between cash in (premiums paid) and cash out (benefits paid to those who paid premiums) until 2042. And the deficit will then be $300 B. Put what we spent in Iraq into the stock market and there would be no deficit. But hey - We didn't elect them. Big Money did. So they serve the interst of those few with Big Money. Even if it means robbing us of our pension (retirement) benefits we have already paid for. Well, according to the following, your alternative retirement is to send your child to Iraq and hope they get killed. You will now get $400,000, instead of $250,000, for their life. (see below) I'm more concerned about my retirement than I am about the "boogie man" terrorist and phantom WMD's. The Bush Economy has made it impossible to secure retirement from any other source. Businesses have all looted, or cut to nil, company pensions and routinely fire those who are approaching 'vestment'.. How much more of this are we going to take? May 5, 2005, 3:48PMHouse OKs $82 billion for Iraq, AfghanistanBy LIZ SIDOTIAssociated Press SUMMARYHighlights of a bill the House passed for wars and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan: • Overall cost: $82 billion. • Defense expenses: $75.9 billion. • Foreign aid and State Department expenses: $4.2 billion. • Foreign military assistance: about $250 million. • International food aid: about $240 million. • Life insurance benefit for troops: $400,000, up from $250,000. • New insurance benefit for traumatic injuries: up to $100,000. • One-time death benefit for families of troops killed in combat, retroactive to Oct. 7, 2001: $100,000, up from $12,000. • Overall costs of two conflicts and other efforts to fight terrorism since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks: over $300 billion. • Economic and infrastructure assistance to the Palestinian Authority: $200 million. • U.S. border security, including money to hire another 500 border patrol agents: $635 million. The bill also: • Adds uniform requirements for driver's licenses. • Toughens asylum laws. • Grants the Homeland Security secretary authority to complete a fence on the California-Mexico border and build other border barriers. • Prohibits the United States from providing assistance to organizations that have not adopted international standards and penalties to prevent the sexual exploitation and abuses of international disaster victims. • Requires federal agencies to include disclaimers on video news releases to clarify that they were prepared at taxpayer expense. • Includes a provision meant to protect the C-130J cargo plane from being scaled back by the Pentagon and language that would prohibit the Pentagon from reducing its fleet of 12 aircraft carriers until it does a long-term review of defense needs. -- Associated Press

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