Posted: 9/4/2001 1:55:18 PM EDT
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This is well worth reading, short and to the point! I received it in an e-mail today. Our Senators/Congressmen do not pay into Social Security, and, therefore they do not collect from it. Social Security benefits were not suitable for them. They felt they should have a special plan. Many years ago they voted in their 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 no matter how long they have been in office, they continue to draw their same pay until they die, except it may be increased from time to time by cost-of-living adjustments. For example, former Senator Bill Bradley (New Jersey) and his wife may be expected to draw $7,900,000.00 over an average life span, with Mrs. Bradley drawing $275,000.00 during the last year of her life. Their cost for this excellent plan is "$0", nada, zilch. This little perk they voted in for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. Our tax dollars at work! Social Security, which you and I pay into every payday for our own retirement, with an equal amount matched by our employer, we can expect to get an average of $1,000 per month. Or, we would have to collect our benefits for 68 years and 1 month to equal the Bradley's benefits. Imagine for a moment that you could structure a retirement plan so desirable, a retirement plan that worked so well, that Railroad Employees, Postal Workers, and others who were not in the plan would clamor to be included. This is how good Social Security could be, if only one small change was made. That change would be to jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan out from under the Senators/Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us. Watch how fast they fix it!!! |
| Want to be pissed off even more? That same congress votes every year on the percentage that social security benefits will be increased and how much the retired senitors will increase. They consistanly vote their cost of living increases well over five percent while s/s recipients cost of living only increases less than two percent. Why the Hell does their cost of living go up more than mine? |
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here's another thing on ssa that will piss you off. rant on I service the Local regional operations center. They have 12 floors with roughly 200 people per floor working from cubicles. Supposedly all of them answering the phones and handling peoples ssa problems. On any given day i can walk in and watch 75%+ of the employees playing games or BS'ing amongst themselves. With about 5-10% actually working. That equals roughly 100+ people per floor dicking off on your tax dollars. I spoke with the IT director there and voiced my opinion. Luckily he's a great guy and we agree on lots of stuff. He told me "We know, it's a big problem. Unfortuanantly they are minorities or classed as disabled and practicaly impossible to fire" "We could operate this building with roughly 1/3 the staff if all of them did their jobs." Guys THIS SHIT FROSTED MY ASS!! I know i will never see a SSA check an all the money i have "DONATED" has been pissed away by welfare broodmares sucking on the government tit. Ran off Mike "I want my money back" h. |
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Mike, this would probably explain why disability applications take up to three years to process now. People with legitimate claims that are unable to work due to disabilities are unable to feed and house themselves while they wait on these lazy assholes to play grab ass instead of doing their damn jobs. The ultimate irony would be to throw their asses on the street and make them wait three years for their claim so they could start eating again. Thank you for doing your job and for caring. |
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i raise cain with "Mod" supervisors everytime i go in there. I know is does no good but maybe just one person will hear me bitch and get back to work. I have actually watched them gather around a cubicle and transfer all their calls to one person doing all the work. As a result phone hold times go through the roof. These leeches are not only draining the country they are effecting peoples live that trully need help. mike Ps. DID I MENTION THIS SHIT PISSES ME OFF!!!!! edited because my brain runs faster than my keyboard finger |
| The special plan that congressmen have where they dont pay into soc sec also applies to state workers. State workers dont have social security taken out they pay into a 401k type system that will be there when they retire unlike the rest of us who will be told "sorry, you have to pay into the system but when you are old and need it it wont be there". Social security is ok for working people but not for the government. |
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Beer_Slayer, My wife works for the state education system and she definately pays SS taxes. As far as the congrass goes that sounds about right. They have been padding their pockets with our tax dollars for years. Congress was spelled wrong on purpose if you know what I mean. Moose |
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Chances are good (or bad, depending on your point of view) that most people posting at AR15.com under the age of 50 will see limited social security benefits, if any. Our government will institute "means testing" and if you have a 401K or equivalent with a value exceeding some minimum level, you will be viewed as "self-sufficient" and you can kiss your social security benefit good-bye. The rising tide of immigrants and others who feel no allegiance to those who economically paved the way for them will realize their power at the ballot box and exercise it. Woe to the politician who attempts to increase the taxes on the new "diverse" majority to pay the retirements of the wealthy white minority. |
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I totally agree with means testing for Social Security. It may lead to some weird practices, seniors giving all their money & property to trusted kids, selling registered assets for untraceable ones. Luckily my wife is a state employee, maybe I will leave the private sector to. |
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Speaking as a young college student who will be graduating very soon who works full time every other semester to pay for college and get work experience. I hate social security. None of the people my age that i know wan't to pay into SS and they don't wan't the benefits. SS sucks and is useless. Someone with a mediocre intelligence can manage their money much beter than the govt. Putting all the money that was suppposed to go into SS into a decent mutual fund and you could retire much earlier. All govt. money programs are just socalist programs that continue to hurt freedom. I don't want it and I shouldn't have to support it. |