[StBernard] Entitlement Reality Check

[Westley Annis]

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 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 Madhoff ever had.

 

Entitlement my ass, we paid cash for our social security insurance!!!! Just
because they borrowed the money, doesn't make our benefits some kind of
charity or handout!!  Congressional benefits, aka free healthcare ,
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 our retirement entitlements !!!!!!.....scroll
down..............

 

What the HELL's wrong???


WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!


April 12, 2011 Calif.   Daily Bulletin paper, ran two articles on the front
page side by side:

1- Calif's 20 Billion Dollar Budget Deficit

2- The Calif Supreme Court ruling that ILLEGALS can attend college and get
benefits.

Why don't they just deport them when they arrive to register?

3- Last year they ran an article on the yearly costs to Calif Taxpayers from
Illegals using Hospital 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 all the people that run
this country!!!!!!

We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless
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 isn't it?

99% of people won't have the guts to forward this.
I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did