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The following is an email floating around on the Internet regarding Social
Security Fraud as seen from the eyes of a woman who lost two husbands before 
they were able to retire.

Read this slowly so it sinks in!!!

KEEP PASSING THIS AROUND UNTIL EVERY ONE HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ

IT... THIS IS SURE SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!!!!

THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THE GOVERNMENT'S CALCULATION OF AVAILABLE SOCIAL

SECURITY IS THEY FORGOT TO FIGURE IN THE PEOPLE WHO DIED BEFORE THEY EVER

COLLECTED A SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK!!!

WHERE DID THAT MONEY GO?

Remember, not only did you and I 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. Read

that again. Did you see where the Government paid in one single penny? We

are talking about the money you and your employer put in a Government bank

to insure you and I that we would have a retirement check from the money we

put in, not the Government. Now they are calling the money we put in an

entitlement when we reach the age to take it back. If you calculate the

future invested value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's

contribution) at a simple 5% interest (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'd receive $26,787.60 per year and it

would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at age 65)

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.

Another thing with me.... I have two deceased husbands who died in their

50's, (one was 51 and the other one was 59 before one percent of their

social security could be drawn. I worked all my life and am drawing 100% on

my own social security). Their S.S. money will never have one cent drawn

from what they paid into S.S. all their lives.

THE FOLKS IN WASHINGTON HAVE PULLED OFF A BIGGER PONZI SCHEME THAN BERNIE

MADOFF EVER DID.

Entitlement my foot, I paid cash for my social security insurance! Just

because they borrowed the money for other government spending, doesn't make

my benefits some kind of charity or handout!!

Remember Congressional benefits? --- 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 my social security

retirement payments entitlements?

We're "broke" and we can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, or

Homeless. Yet in the last few 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 S.S. income' receive no additional

federal aid nor do they get any financial breaks, while our government 

pour hundreds of billions of $$$ 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 it's time for

us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the

government borrow from it in the first place? It was supposed to be in a

locked box, not part of the general fund.

Sad isn't it?  99% of people won't have the guts to forward this. I'm in the 1% -- I just

did.