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Dark and best kept secrets about Our Social Security!
Many years ago in Seattle, two wonderful neighbors, Elliott and Patty Roosevelt came to my home to swim on a regular basis. They were a great couple full of laughter and stories that today I continue to marvel at. Both are now deceased, but their stories remain. During the years of our friendship we had many, many discussions about Elliott's parents (President Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt) and how his father and mother never intended for the Social Security and Welfare programs to turn out the way they are today. Elliott used to say that if his parents returned to earth and saw what the politicians had done to their programs they would have burned all of them in hell.
Here is a story I received today regarding the Social Security Program and I immediately thought of Elliott's comments. I Hope you will read this and think about it. _____________________________________________
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:
1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary,
2 .) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program,
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent "Trust Fund" rather than into the General operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income ------------------------------------------------------------------- Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to "put away" -- you may be interested in the following: -------------------------------------------------------------
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent "Trust Fund" and put i t into the General fund so that Congress could spend it? A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities???? A: The Democratic Party, with A l Gore casting the "tie-breaking" deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US .
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Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
This is MY FAVORITE:
A: That's right! Jimmy Carter! And the Democratic Party of course! Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Secu rity p a yments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it! ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and violating of the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! ==============================================
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Apparently I double posted some how. A reply to the other post suggests that the facts in the E-Mail are not 100% correct. http://www.snopes.com/politics/socialsecurity/changes.asp
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While the facts may not be 100% correct, a vast majority of this post is true. While I normally trust snopes research, they have bent their response a bit to the left on this. To get all of the facts, check out the Social Security site and some of their references.
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snopes clearly has a left wing bias in their analysis of the "truth" of stories and the reliability of sources
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A question. Did any Republicans try to reverse any of the above decisions when they were in control of the white house or congress?
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