15% in SS? On Oct 22, 1:09 pm, Maax Well <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure about the republicans but some of us feel the government > takes far more than they need for what they provide. > > The government is taking 15% of your income as social security, in > return you may get 1500 bucks a month and another 1500 to throw your > body in a box when you are dead and that is it. Nothing left for your > family or any charities of your choice. > > If the government required you put 15% of your income in a private > savings that belongs to you. Even if you are working minimum wage > after 40 years you would accumulate over a million dollars to do with > what you please. You could retire with it, give it to your kids, or > the school lunch program. They have taken far too much money and > wasted it. When they run out they comeback and take more. > > They are wasting billions of dollars on the Medicare/Medicade programs > that they take money from us for. These agencies spend with no > auditing of any kind. John Stossel did a report where they followed > the vans from clinics that pick up homeless people and promise them $5 > to ride down to the clinic and fill out a form. Once they have the > social security number they can bill for procedures and tests that do > not happen. One of the vans was picking up mothers offering $5 per > child they would bring and candy for the kids. This is how our > government handles our money. Try these same games with a private > company and there are adjusters in place to verify the companies money > is being spent for hopefully a legitimate claim. > > If the government really managed the money they already take there is > plenty. It is so scary they just spent at least a trillion dollars on > bad loans. A normal business could not survive with, but the > government thinks you and I should pay the bill. > > Forrest Gump Explains Mortgage Backed Securities > > Mortgage Backed Securities are like boxes of chocolates. Criminals on > Wall Street stole a few chocolates from the boxes and replaced them > with turds. Their criminal buddies at Standard & Poors rated these > boxes AAA Investment Grade chocolates. These boxes were then sold all > over the world to investors. Eventually somebody bites into a turd and > discovers the crime. Suddenly nobody trusts American chocolates > anymore worldwide. > > Hank Paulson now wants the American taxpayers to buy up and hold all > these boxes of turd-infested chocolates for $700 billion dollars until > the market for turds returns to normal. Meanwhile, Hank's buddies, the > Wall Street criminals who stole all the good chocolates, are not being > investigated, arrested or indicted. > > Mama always said: "Sniff the chocolates first, Forrest". > > On Oct 22, 8:54 am, VT Sean Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have no problem with the richest Americans paying the same tax rate > > as struggling working class Americans. > > > Why do Republicans have such a problem with this? > > > If I am a struggling working class American and I see Congress > > spending money to help the rich stay rich as a consequence > > of the rich being fiscally irresponsible and running the economy > > into a ditch, is it being unfair to ask the rich to them help > > pay for the damage of their irresponsibility? > > > Apparently the Republicans feel this is unfair. > > > I don't. I Think people call it sharing the pain. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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