>Please pass this email because this is a REAL IMPORTANT ISSUE! <br /> IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT! <br />> KEEP IT GOING!!!! <br />> 2008 Election Issue!! <br />> GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC. SEC. <br />> This must be an issue in "2008" Please! Keep it going. <br />> ---------------------------------- <br />> SOCIAL SECURITY: <br />> <br />> (This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.) <br />> <br />> Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years. <br />> <br />> Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it. <br />> <br />> You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society.They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own <br />> <br />> benefit plan. <br />> <br />> In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan. <br />> <br />> For all practical purposes their plan works like this: <br />> <br />> When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die. <br />> <br />> Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments.. <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 $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. <br />> <br />> <br />> Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives. <br />> <br />> Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00. NADA....ZILCH.... <br />> <br />> This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds; <br />> <br />> "OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"! <br />> <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 $1,000 per month 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 />> <br />> <br />> <br />> <br />> Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made. <br />> <br />> That change would be to: <br />> <br />> <br />> Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us <br />> <br />> <br />> then sit back..... <br />> <br />> <br />> and watch how fast they would fix it. <br />> <br />> If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve. <br />> <br />> <br />> <br />> How many people can YOU send this to? <br />> <br />> <br />> Better yet..... <br />> <br />> <br />> How many people WILL you send this to
