Sunday, July 31, 2011

ANS -- Fwd: What the heck is wrong here? Please read

This is to show you that there is finally a more reasonable mass email going around.  I haven't checked the math or the facts, but I just wanted to show you what is going around.  The concept is correct: we paid for our Social Security insurance.  The right sends around hundreds of this kind of thing with their slant on them -- telling people to get outraged at all the power poor people have over them and ignore the fact that all the power is in the hands of the rich (if you think about it, all the bad things happening have to be the responsibility of the people and corporations who have the power to do stuff, not of the people who have no power to make things happen.... duh....). 
When we use the word "entitlement" to refer to things we actually ARE entitled to, because we paid for them ourselves, we need to make that explicit.  Don't let the Right get away with changing the word "entitlement" to mean a free gift, or welfare. 
--Kim

 
 
 
 
 
An "Entitlement???"
 
What the hell is wrong here?
 
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 govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working (me) you'd have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year, you receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years, 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 Madoff ever had.
 
 
Entitlement my ass, 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, aka. free health care, 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 retirement entitlements !!!!!!.....scroll down..............
 
Emergency Rooms for their general health care -At just one hospital the cost to tax payers totaled over 25 million a year!!!

Someone please tell me what the HELL's wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!!

We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????

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?
 
We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.

AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment -etc,etc.

YET......................
They have a 'Benefit' for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents clothes, bedding, doctors and medical supplies.

Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.

SAD?
 
YEAH, OK, SO WHEN DO WE GET PISSED AND
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?????

99% of people won't have the guts to forward this.
I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did
 

 


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