Joyanna Adams

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Nobody Gets Email: Screwed

Nobody Gets Email: I could have wrote this…but I didn’t. I got this last week and thought, yep. (Thanks to Tom Bebee)

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

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 this country! We’re “broke” and can’t help our won Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homelss, 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

Since this email talks about what programs are NOT “entitlements”, let’s note what programs are, and their effect. Too many see that they get something for nothing from Uncle Sam, but forget who he is, so they go to and take from Sam Walton, because they’re “entitled”. They trash the stores, and say “why not? It makes jobs for the clerks that clean up after them.” Of course, they aren’t apying those clerks because they’re not paying for the merchandise they steal. guess who is? check your mirror. “entitlements” sprang from the war on poverty which, like almost every other war since WW-II, we have fought to a tie (Korea, Gulf War 1) or lost (Vietnam, Gulf War 2, Afghanistan, poverty and Drugs). Time to get out of the war business, including those last

 

July 31, 2011 Posted by | economy | , | 9 Comments