Sent to me by a friend. It is good info.
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 even 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 his 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 mother returned to earth and saw what the
politicians had done to their programs she 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. Hope you will read this
and think about it. Margaret
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:
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Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from
the independent "Trust" fund and put it into the
General fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically
controlled House and Senate.
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Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax
deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
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Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social
Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the
"tie-breaking" deciding vote as President of the
Senate,
while he was Vice President of the U.S.
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AND MY FAVORITE:
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving
annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That's right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic
Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at
age 65, began to receive Social Security payments!
The Democratic Party gave these payments to them,
even though they never paid a dime into it!
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Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and
violation 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!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of
awareness will be planted and maybe good changes
will evolve. Maybe not, some Democrats are awfully
sure of what isn't so.
But it's worth a try. How many people can YOU
send this to?
