Of course it just makes sense. The elected members of Congress are servants of the nation i.e. the people. They are paid a salary to do their job and as wage earners they should pay income taxes and social security taxes like everyone else. Upon retirement they will draw SS benefits accordingly until the end of life. Let's spread the words out demanding a revision of that senseless statute by votes on a measure to be submitted to popular decision.

                                                                                                               Robert Trando

2008 Election Issue !!

DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT LIBERTARIAN OR INDEPENDENT!

KEEP IT GOING!!!!

GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOCIAL SECURITY .

This must be an issue in "2005." Please! Keep it going.

SOCIAL SECURITY:
(This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.)
Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years! !

Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it.

You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society They felt they should have a special plan for themselves!  So, many years ago they voted in their own
benefit plan.

In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan.

For all practical purposes their plan works like this:

When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die.

Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments.

For example, former Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7,800,000.00 (that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand Dollars), 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 Dignitaries.

Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age will receive much more during the rest of their lives.

Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00 NADA...ZILCH....

This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds;
" OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK "!

From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer)- we can expect to get an average of $1,000 per month after retirement.

Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one (1) month to equal Senator! Bill Bradley's benefits!
Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made.

That change would be to:

Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us then sit back....and watch how fast they would fix it.
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve.

How many people can YOU send this to? Better yet.....

How many people WILL you send this to??

Keep this going clear up thru the 2008 election!! We need to be heard