It is the sad and undeniable truth that as long as
politicians do not have to live like their average constitutants things like
health care, social security and other issues important to Americans will not
be their top priority.
Why should it be? Our ELECTED senators and congressmen and
women do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from
it. Social Security benefits are for the “lesser” people and not for persons of
their rare elevation in society. They felt they needed a special plan just for
themselves and many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan. However, no
ELECTED politician has felt the need to make any changes to this plan I mean
hells bells it just a dandy plan! And this little plan of theirs works
something like this:
When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until
they die with exception it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments,
which they themselves vote on. They dare not ask their employer the American
people by a vote or other means they just take it upon themselves pretty cool
huh?
Here are a couple of examples for you. Take ol’ former Senator Byrd,
Congressman White and both their wives. At that time they expected to draw
$7,800,000.00 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
ELECTED servants. And it gets better a younger ELECTED servant of the people
that retires at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their
life and the cost of this plan for them to get into?…..ZERO!!
The funds for this fine retirement plan
come directly from the General Funds; YOUR TAX DOLLAR!
As for the average American from our Social Security Plan,
which we pay or have paid into every payday until we retire, we can expect to
get an average of $1,000 per month after retirement. Chump change in comparison
to what those will get who are suppose to be working for the good of the
country when they retire. If we pulled that golden retirement plan these
senators and congressmen have built for themselves out from under them and then
put them on the same SS plan Americans are on you’d see just how fast the
program would get fixed!
Our ELECTED senators and congressmen and women get
free health care for life. Again, why should they be in a big hurry to do
anything about that? Hell, there was even talk about the elimination of employer-funded
health insurance! However, if they had to live like many Americans who have to
make a decision between getting treatment of an illness or paying rent or for
food, you wouldn’t believe the fires that would get lit under their lazy asses.
It amazes me the perks and incentives that those we have ELECTED to take care
of the country vote themselves almost like they deserve it regardless of the
poor job they are doing. If you or I were to turn in such poor job performances
to our employers we would be handed a pink slip. Maybe a few more pink slips on
Capital Hill need to be issued!
Blessed Be,
Micheal
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• 7/25/2006 - G'day Mate!