<head><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}p{margin:0px}</style></head><body id="compText">In a word....hang the lot of the bloody heathen Philistines!<br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Dianne Dawson <rcdianne@yahoo.com>
<br>Sent: Aug 7, 2009 11:57 AM
<br>To: Apologetics Group <apologetics@gathman.org>
<br>Subject: [Apologetics] THIS IS THE RETIREMENT I WANT
<br><br><zzzhtml><zzzhead><style type="text/css"><ZZZ!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></zzzhead><zzzbody><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p><font size="5">This is YOUR MONEY working for someone else</font></p><font size="5"></font><font size="7">
</font><p><font size="7">IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE<b> <br>REPUBLICAN</b> OR<b> DEMOCRAT</b>!</font><font size="2"><br></font><font size="5"><br></font><b><font size="6">KEEP IT GOING!!!!</font></b><font size="6"><br><br><b>Propose this in 2009:<br><br>START A BILL TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOCIAL SECURITY<br><br><br>----------------------------------<br><br>SOCIAL SECURITY:<br><br>(This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.)</b></font><b><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6"> <br><br>Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years. <br><br></font></font><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5">Our Senators and Congresswomen</font></font><font size="5"> do not</font><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5"> pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it. </font></font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6"><br></font></font><font color="#008080" size="7"><font color="#008080" size="7"><br></font></font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6">You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for </font></font><font size="6">persons of their rare elevation in society</font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6">. They</font></font></b><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6"> felt they should have a</font></font><b><font size="6"> special plan</font></b><font size="6"></font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6"> for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their</font></font><font size="6"> own</font><font color="#000080" size="6"><font color="#000080" size="6"> </font></font><b><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6">benefit plan.<br><br></font></font><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5">In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan.</font></font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6"> </font></font><font color="#008080" size="7"><font color="#008080" size="7"><br><br></font></font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6">For all practical purposes their plan works like this:<br><br>When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die. </font></font><font size="6"><br></font><font size="5">Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments..</font><font color="#ff0000" size="5"><font color="#ff0000" size="5"> <br><br>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 <br>$275, 000.00 during the last years of their lives.<br><br>This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries.</font></font><font size="7"><br><br></font><font size="6">Younger Dignitaries</font><font color="#ff0000" size="6"><font color="#ff0000" size="6"> who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives. </font></font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6"><br><br>Their cost for this excellent plan is</font></font><font size="6"> $0.00</font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6">. NADA..! ZILCH....</font></font><font size="6"> </font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6"><br><br></font></font><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5">This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them.</font></font><font size="5"> <br>You and I pick up the tab for this plan</font><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5">. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds;</font></font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6"> </font></font><font color="#008080" size="7"><font color="#008080" size="7"><br></font></font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6">"</font></font><font size="6">OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK </font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6">"!</font></font><font size="6">
<br></font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6"><br>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 </font></font></b></p><b><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6"></font></font><font size="6">
<p>$1,000 per month </p></font><font size="2">
</font></b><p><b><font size="2">After retirement.<br><br>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! <br></font><font size="5"><br></font><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5"><br><br></font></font><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5">Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made.</font></font></b></p><b><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5"></font></font><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5">
</font></font></b><p><b><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5"><br></font></font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6">That change would be to:</font></font><font color="#008080" size="7"><font color="#008080" size="7"> </font></font><font size="6"><br><br></font><font size="5">Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen.. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us </font><font color="#008080" size="7"><font color="#008080" size="7"><br></font></font><font color="#008080" size="6"><font color="#008080" size="6">Then sit back..... </font></font><font size="7"><br><br></font><font size="5">And see how fast they would fix it </font><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5"><br><br>If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve.</font></font><font size="5"> <br></font><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5"><br><br>How many people </font></font><font color="#000080" size="5"><font color="#000080" size="5">CAN</font></font><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5"> </font></font><font color="#000080" size="5"><font color="#000080" size="5">you</font></font><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5"> send this to?<br><br>Better yet......<br>How many people</font></font><font size="5"> WILL</font><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5"> you send this to</font></font><font size="5"> </font><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5">?</font></font></b></p><b><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5"></font></font></b><font color="#008080" size="5"><font color="#008080" size="5"></font></font></div><br>
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