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Forum_______Social Security
Attention: This is not a "blame thing" for
what's happening to Social Security-----Just a history / civic studies reminder
of the facts about lost annuities. These details are EASY TO CHECK
OUT.
Your Social Security:
The Great Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt
started social security in the 1935-1937 timeframe after the Great Depression
was slowing down, thanks to Roosevelt's W.P.A. and C.C.C. Programs, and The
U.S.A.'s anticipation of WWWII---industrial build up.President Roosevelt
promised:
1. Participation in the program would be
voluntary,
2. Participants would only have to pay 1% of the first
$1400.00 of their annual earnings into the program,
3. The money participants put into the program would be
tax deductible every year,
4. The participants money would go into a TRUST
FUND, not a GENERAL OPERATING FUND for Congress to spend,
5. The annuities paid to retirees would NEVER BE TAXED
as income.
Many of you, and I, paid the maximum into the fund for
years, retired and are now drawing social security annuities, SO, YOU
SHOULD BE REMINDED OF THE FOLLOWING DETAILS -
A. Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic controlled
Senate and House took the "Trust Fund" and put it into the general
operating fund for Congress to spend on his Great Society.
B. The Democrats also eliminated the income tax
deduction for FICA, (Social Security), paid into the program, therby increasing
taxes.
C. Vice-President Al Gore cast the tie-breaking
vote, when he was President of the Senate, to start taxing your Social
Security payments.
D. President Jimmy Carter and his Democratic
controlled House and Senate made it legal to pay Social
Security annuity payments to immigrants at age 65.
The Democrats now tell you that the Republicans want to
take your Social Security away!!!! Most all of us would never vote for anyone who wanted to take
away social security, but, the system should be corrected without a high risk of
funds transferred to Wall Street.
Let's all push for maintenance/repair of the
Social Security Program, not the destruction thereof, and,simultaneously, help
the immigrants as passionate humanity should. People who work hard and pay into
a fund should reap the benefits of the fund before others use it, legally or
illegally. Write your congressmen and all the politicians you know and state
your position.
READ THE CBS STORY CALLED DISABLED AND WAITING
AND SEE WHAT THERE REALLY DOING(CBS NEWS)
AND ALSO TAKE A LOOK AT THE GAO REPORT
THAT CHECKS ON THEM AND SEE WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING(GAO.COM)AND TYPE IN SOCIAL SECURITY REPORT)
HAVEING A SAVEINGS OR ANYTHING ELSE WONT HELP
WITH THE REPUBLICANS TAKE MONEY FROM THERE
THATS THE DEAL $20.000 FOR ONE THING
$5.000 FOR A HAMMER AND THE HITS GO ON AND ON
THE MONEY THEY TAKE FROM THE MMA FUND WILL
BLOW YOU AWAY(MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG IMPROVEMENT
BUT THAT WHAT THEY DO
My mother which is only one small story..
She worked hard as a nurse srtaight from college untill she retired and now still gives one day a week free! She can NOT afford her med's.. This just really upsets me among other thing but that just should not be!
Trigger
Those details are indeed easy to check out. They are also incorrect, for the most part. An article at the urban legends website Snopes.com investigates the claims in detail. Here is the link: http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/sschanges.asp
This same list has been circulated for quite some time via email. While the current poster would have us believe it is not a "blame thing," it is clear to me that it is little more than a screed against Democrats.