You bet your ass it's an entitlement, in the same way my bank account is an entitlement, AS I EARNED THAT MONEY.
Here's more, I used Snopes to check this out, and more questions come up like, what about the 25% who've paid into Social Security, and don't live to use it? Talk about greedmongers. http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/benefit.asp > From: Lois Hamilton [mailto:vlhamilt...@cox.net] > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 1:31 PM > > > > > So, what do you think that this is about? Are we being given a clue to > how these benefits will be eliminated as a "government-Federal-dole", > instead of something we paid into our entire working lives? Something to > watch. > > Lois > > > > > > > SOCIAL SECURITY NOW CALLED 'FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENT' /ENTITLEMENT! > > > > Have you noticed, your Social Security check is now referred to as a > "Federal Benefit Payment"? > > > > I'll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it > because > it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. > > > > 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 - its 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 employer's > 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 - it's a fact). > > And your 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" 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. But 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 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. > > > > Here's a novel idea: Reduce the military budget to support our own > population after bringing our troops home. Get out of the countries who > don't want us there. Bring our soldiers home and invest some of the $700B+ > in giving them new careers building roads and parks, teaching our > children, > creating new technologies, discovering cures for illness. > > > > Then take the rest and begin to pay back Social Security, and call it > what > it is: Our Earned Retirement Income. > > > > 99% of people won't forward this. > > Will you? > > > > VOTE FOR PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS FOR CONGRESS!!!!! > > > > > > = > > * * * > > http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2012083207/why-romney-such-bad-candidate > -its-not-man-its-policies-video > <blocked::http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2012083207/why-romney-such-bad > -candidate-its-not-man-its-policies-video> > > Why Is Romney Such A Bad Candidate? It's Not The Man. It's The Policies. > > <blocked::http://www.ourfuture.org/users/bill-scher> Bill Scher's picture > > By <blocked::http://www.ourfuture.org/users/bill-scher> Bill Scher > > August 7, 2012 - 12:00pm ET > > <blocked::http://www.davidpakman.com/2012/08/august-6-2012/> While on The > David Pakman Show yesterday, host David Pakman asked me why I thought Mitt > Romney has proven to be such a bad candidate. > > The conventional wisdom is that Romney is weird, aloof, socially awkward > and > removed from the lives of average Americans. All that may be true, but > it's > also true of plenty of successful politicians. Politics is not the > profession for the well-adjusted. > > Instead, I noted that Romney is having such a hard time because of the > fundamental incoherence of his and party's issue platform. > > The Republican Party and the conservative movement simply have done no > significant soul-searching following the debacle of the George W. Bush > presidency. They have admitted no error, and in turn, have refused to make > any adjustments to convince the public they are ready to return to power. > > In Romney's case, he appears to have some basic understanding that he > can't > take Tea Party anti-government talking points and expect to win the middle > of the country. But he also can't speak truth to the Tea Party either. > > <blocked::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG2KveVy1PU> He won't offer > policies that are > <blocked::http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/07/25/587781/romney-struggl > es-to-distinguish-his-economic-policies-from-bushs/> any different from > President Bush's, because to do so would require admitting that something > out of the Conservative 101 playbook -- lower taxes on the rich, fewer > rules > on corporations -- didn't work. > > Instead he > <blocked::http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/07/25/587781/romney-struggl > es-to-distinguish-his-economic-policies-from-bushs/> dances around nearly > every question on policy, and > <blocked::http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2012073130/embrace-israeli-soc > ialized-medicine-romney-completes-rare-full-monty-health-ca> panders to > every audience he sees, in hopes no one will notice and will simply vote > for > him out of antipathy for President Obama. > > But doing that dance leads to plenty of mistakes. 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