Bastards pure and simple: The theft of your Social Security

Write your congressmen and women and tell them the jig is up!  A friend sent this to me.  I suggest  you read it.
 
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?

SOTU -- who is he kidding?

I was going to boycott Trump's State of the Union Speech because I cannot listen to his voice, words filled with lies, nor look at his disgusting "blond" sprayed-into-submission hair but I wanted to see how the Democratic opposition of women in their white garb reacted. They along with Speaker Pelosi were inspiring.  

If one is a right wing extremist then I am sure they loved Trump's speech complete with late term pregnancy anti-choice bull-pucky histrionics.  These Republican men love to tell women what to do with their bodies and their base roars in approval. There was, of course, orgasmic praise for a wall to keep those oh so threatening caravans of brown out. The true threat, climate change, is not mentioned not even once.  I wonder if he will be alive when climate changed Miami sinks into the ocean I hope taking Mar-A-Lago with it.

Trump was, naturally, playing to his base as he does on his stump speeches all the time.  He spends more time on the road speaking to his right wing extremist supporters, spends more time golfing, and spends more "Executive" time watching TV.  He cannot write nor spell and he has no patience to read important foreign policy texts from experts.  This is our so called president.  His gut does the policy walking much to the consternation of those who happen not to want the launch of nuclear war.  He says it was he that kept N. Korea from launching a nuclear Armageddon.  Oh the egotism of that ridiculous statement!  Sorry, Mr. Trump, N. Korea is still building nuclear weaponry which he does not, of course, mention.  He bombs treaties and organizations that have kept the world's peace and threatens his perceived enemy, Iran, blasts away Obama agreements that were working and indicts all things Obama, including regulations that kept our drinking water and air safe.  He fires his staff and pays attention to experts if and only if they reflect what he feels otherwise they are fired.  His SOTU was all about all of that.  It was not meant to be inclusive.  It was meant to please his base and lift his base-sagging numbers.  He is addicted to love -- the love of his base -- because few of any other political bent love him. His numbers are falling and he knows it.  Perhaps this speech will temporarily raise those numbers but not for long as his policies wreak havoc on our nation.  Wait for the real biographical tweets soon to come

He has WWII vets and a concentration camp survivor from another era, the era of FDR (the opposite of Trumpian politics) in the audience.   It is all staged to evoke volcanic eruptions of praise from his base. I suspect if he were president in the WWII era since he is a self-proclaimed Nationalist and an observable demagogue he would have allied with the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan) who were also Nationalists and supported the authoritarian fascists Hitler and Mussolini!  Who is he kidding.  Not me!