Editor's Note:
I got this one from my cousin. Not sure where he got it. Title mine.
Social In-Security
A woman dies at age 65 before collecting one benefit check. She and her employer paid into the system for almost 50 years and she collected NOTHING. Keep in mind all the working people that die every year who were paying into the system and got nothing.
And these governmental morons mismanaged the money and stole from the system, so that it's now going broke.
BEAUTIFUL! And they have the audacity to call today's seniors "vultures" in an attempt to cover their ineptitude. DISGRACEFUL!
The real reason for renaming our Social Security payments is so the government can claim that all those social security recipients are receiving entitlements thus putting them in the same category as welfare, and food stamp recipients.
THIS IS WORTH THE FEW MINUTES IT TAKES TO READ AND DIGEST!
F.Y.I. By changing the name of SS contributions, it gives them a means to refute this program in the future. It's free money for the government to spend under this guise.
The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a Federal Benefit Payment?
I'll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you.
Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment."
This is NOT a benefit. It is OUR money , paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too ! It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.(This should be enough for you to forward this message, If not read on.)
If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.
If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved.
This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.
That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it's a fact). And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.
Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever did, (or Lyndon Johnson).
They took our money and used it elsewhere. They "forgot"(oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them ... and they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. (Isn't it funny that they NEVER say this about welfare payments?)
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a benefit, as if we never worked to earn every penny of it. This is stealing!
Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't mean that our investments were for charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of the 92% of our population who need it.
Then call it what it is:
Our Earned Retirement Income .
90% of people won't forward this.
PLEASE! Will you?
Replies
Even worse Ed,
You end up being "subject to the jurisdiction" of the federal government. Involuntary and coerced servitude. Still not true citizenship or human status of any kind.
However, I disagree that this is an automatic condemnation. I think people today were born into a world that has lied to them their entire lives. We live in The Matrix. No more evidence need be presented than the idea set forth in one of my favorite quotes,
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell, 1984 (the book, not the year)
We now live in such times. As evidence one need only refer to the FDA regulation which states;
"Only a drug can treat, cure, diagnose, or prevent a disease."
So for instance, if you go on TV and claim that vitamin C can cure scurvy, you will be arrested and taken to jail for telling the truth. Why?
One, because it is the truth and that's the last thing the drug companies want you to know and;
Two, because they will charge you with the crime of selling drugs without a license to legitimize this action.
Why? Because if you're claiming that an orange can cure scurvy, (a disorder caused by a lack of Vitamin C), then you're stating that the orange is a drug and therefore falls within the jurisdiction and authority of the FDA and that silly little regulation above.
There you have it. The twisted logic that forms the De-Facto authority that tells you without ANY doubt, that you live in these deceitful times that would have you arrested and jailed for the simple act of telling the truth.
And all of this without even passing a law through Congress or amending the Constitution; The FDA makes a regulation that is treated as law and enforced with the full weight of their corrupt courts behind them. In essence, the truth has been outlawed.
p.s. - Try not to pigeon hole the word constitution. It has at least 6 major definitions and in the sense of government is used to accurately describe the make up and form of the rules for and restrictions on federal government behavior and procedures. Nothing more.
True Law is essential to the true "Holy Name!" A Attorney cannot do true law ought he have a Social Security Number. So saying you have to have a Social Number is like saying one has to have a scam contractor using The name of Attorney! Pray for us all!
We have GOT to find a way to spread the word NATION-WIDE. I mean. I turned 70 in April and I'm wondering where the last 50 years went. Really, it's like hearing my grandfather in my mind's ear. I NEVER thought I would be thinking this way. Then, I turned around and - BAM - I got old! Who'd have thought?......