I thought this was worth sending along to everyone.  What's wrong with this
picture?????

~Ruth
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Subject: Social Security


>
>   Congress and Social Security
>
>  Our Senators and Congressmen don't pay in to Social Security, and,
> of course, they don't collect from it.
>
>  The reason is that they have a special retirement plan that they
> voted for themselves many years ago. For all practical purposes,
> It works like this:
>
>  When they retire, they continue to draw their same pay, until they
> die, except that it may be increased from time to time by cost of
> living adjustments.
>
>  For instance, former Senator Bradley, and his wife, may be expected
> to draw $7,900,000, with Mrs. Bradley drawing $275,000 during the
> last year of her life. This is calculated on an average life span for
>  each.
>
> This would be well and good, except that they paid nothing in on any
> kind of retirement, and neither does any other Senator or
> Congressman.
>
>  This fine retirement comes right out of the General Fund: our tax
> money.  While we (who pay for it all) draw an average of $1000/month
> from Social Security.
>
>  Imagine for a moment that you could structure a retirement plan so
>  desirable that people would have extra deducted so that they could
>  increase their own personal retirement income. A retirement plan
> that works so well, that Railroad employees, Postal Workers, and
> others who aren't in it, would clamor to get in.
>
>  That is how good Social Security could be, if only one small change
> were made. That change is to jerk the Golden Fleece retirement out
> from under the Senators and Congressmen, and put them in Social
> Security with the rest of us. Then watch how fast they fix it.
>
>  If enough people receive this, maybe one or some of them along the
>  way might be able to help.  How many can YOU send it to?
>