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Offline The One and Only Mo

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SOCIAL SECURITY. PLEASE explain this post.
« on: March 19, 2012, 12:27:10 PM »
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SOCIAL SECURITY NOW CALLED 'FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENT'/ENTITLEMENT!

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. 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 foot, 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 healthcare, 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 its 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. Get angry and pass this on!

I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did

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Re: SOCIAL SECURITY. PLEASE explain this post.
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2012, 04:56:38 PM »
I agree that Social Security is a big scam... I have paid into it my entire life and I have heard that it may not be around when I need it. I am sick of paying into something which they claim is supposed to be saved for my retirement but is really used to give to bums who don' work...

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Re: SOCIAL SECURITY. PLEASE explain this post.
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2012, 09:09:57 PM »
I agree that Social Security is a big scam... I have paid into it my entire life and I have heard that it may not be around when I need it. I am sick of paying into something which they claim is supposed to be saved for my retirement but is really used to give to bums who don' work...
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