SOCIAL SECURITY becomes FEDERAL BENEFIT CHECK

 

Have you noticed, the Social Security check is now referred to as a ===> FEDERAL BENEFIT CHECK 

I'll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it. 

Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. 

The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as 

A Federal Benefit Payment. 

This isn't a benefit. It Is earned income! Not only did we all contribute to 

Social Security 

but our employers did too. 

It totaled 15% of our income before taxes . 

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 

Invested in Social Security. 

If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security 

( $375/month, including both your and your employers contributions) at a meager 

1% Interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have 

more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! 

This is your personal investment . 

Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year. 

You'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month. 

That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of 

$1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. 

(Google it - its a fact) 

Y our retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you 

retire at age 65)! 

I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in 

retirement if 

our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts 

. 

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger ponzi scheme than Bernie 

Madoff ever did. 

They took our money and used it elsewhere. 

They forgot (Knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. 

They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them . 

And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed . 

And recently, they've told us that the money won't support us for very much 

longer . 

Is it our fault they misused our investments? 

And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a benefit , 

as if we never worked to earn every penny of it. 

Just because they borrowed the money, 

doesn't mean that our investments were a charity! 

Let's take a stand. 

We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. 

Demand that our legislators, Republicans and Democrats, 

bring some sense into our government . 

Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going, 

for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. 

*Then call it what it is: 

"Our Earned Retirement Income"