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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hi, </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I found this eye opening, as well as interesting.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>With everything going on in Washington, DC and two years of no </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Soc. Sec increases, while Congresspersons "get theirs," here's something to think about!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>2012 is an election year for 1/3 of the senate and 1/2 of the house of representatives. It would be nice if Congress got the message; the voting taxpayers are in charge now</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Social Security </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>LET US SHOW OUR LEADERS IN WASHINGTON "PEOPLE POWER" AND THE POWER OF THE INTERNET.</span></b><b><u><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>PLEASE </span></u></b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>FORWARD TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS. </span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE<b> REPUBLICAN</b> OR <b>DEMOCRAT</b>!</span><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <b><br></b></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>KEEP IT GOING!!!!</span></b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'><br>Propose this in 2012: <br><br>START A MOVEMENT TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOCIAL SECURITY</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <br><br>SOCIAL SECURITY:<br><br>(This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.)</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'> <br><br>Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years. <br><br>Our Senators and Congresswomen</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><u><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C20000'>do not</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'> pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>f</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'>rom</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'>it. <br><br>You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>persons of their rare elevation in society</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'>. They</span></b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'> felt they should have a </span><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>special plan</span></b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'> for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their</span><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <b>own </b></span><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'>benefit plan. <br><br>In more recent years, no congress person has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan. <br><br>For all practical purposes their plan works like this: <br><br>When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die. </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments. .....</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C20000'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C20000'><br><br>For example, 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. <br>This is calculated on an average life span for each of those dignitaries.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <br><br>Younger dignitaries </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C20000'>who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives. </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'><br><br>Their cost for this excellent plan to them is</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> $0.00</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'>. NADA</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'>!!</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'>! ZILCH</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'>!!!</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'><br><br>This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> You and I pick up the tab for this plan</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'>. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds; </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br>"OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"! </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'><br><br>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</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#004080'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'>our employer), we can expect to get an average of </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'><br>$1,000 per month after retirement.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#603181'><br><br>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! </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'><br><br>Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made. <br><br>That change would be to </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C20000'><br><br>Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen.Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'><br>Then sit back.... </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br>And see how fast they would fix it! </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'><br><br>If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'><br><br>How many people can </span></b><b><u><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>YOU</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'> send this to?<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F6128'><br>Better yet......</span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000'> <br>How many people </span></b><b><u><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002060'>WILL</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#008250'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>you send this to ?</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.25pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>