Ten-Finger Exercises

Liberals, please help me understand.

I am generally not a very political person. I tend to disbelieve all exclusive claims of which
party or candidate represents truth, freedom and the American way. My husband, and my former husband as well, are VERY Republican, so that is the side I hear most often. The latter, who did a stint protecting the Arizona border from illegal traffic back in the '70's, sent me this. I can't imagine why it is an issue, let alone why anyone would vote for it. What am I not noticing here? Why would this be a good idea, to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits?


Proposed Social Security Change For 2008

Now, the following senators voted to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits. They are grouped by home state. If a state is not listed, there was no voting representative.


Alaska: Stevens (R) Arizona : McCain (R) Arkansas : Lincoln (D) Pryor (D)
California : Boxer(D) Feinstein(D) Colorado : Salazar(D) Connecticut : Dodd(D) Lieberman(D) Delaware : Biden (D) Carper(D) Florida : Martinez(R) Hawaii : Akaka (D) Inouye(D) Illinois : Durbin(D) Obama(D) Indiana : Bayh (D) Lugar (R) Iowa: Harkin(D) Kansas : Brownback(R) Louisiana : Landrieu (D) Maryland : Mikulski(D) Sarbanes(D) Massachusetts : Kennedy D) Kerry(D) Montana : Baucus(D) Nebraska : Hagel(R) Nevada : Reid(D) New Jersey : Lautenberg(D) Menendez (D) New Mexico : Bingaman(D) New York : Clinton (D) Schumer(D) North Dakota : Dorgan(D) Ohio : DeWine(R) Voinovich(R) Oregon : Wyden (D) Pennsylvania : Specter(R) Rhode Island : Chafee (R) Reed(D) South Carolina : Graham(R) South Dakota: Johnson(D) Vermont : Jeffords (I) Leahy (D) Washington : Cantwell (D) Murray(D) West Virginia : Rockefeller(D), by Not Voting Wisconsin : Feingold (D) Kohl (D)

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT!

KEEP IT GOING!!!!
2008 Election Issue!!

GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC. SEC.

This must be an issue in '2008' Please! Keep it going.

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SOCIAL SECURITY:

Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years.

Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it.

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 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, they continue to draw the same pay until they die.

Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments..

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.

This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries.

Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives.

Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00. N ADA..! ZILCH...

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;

'OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK '!

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.

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 Brad ley's benefits!

Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made.

That change would be to:

Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us

Then sit back.....

And see how fast they would fix it.


And now, normal apolitical comments will resume. Sorry folks.