SOCIAL SECURITY NOW CALLED 'FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENT'/ENTITLEMENT!

 

Have you noticed, your Social Security check is now referred to as a

"Federal Benefit Payment"?

 

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.

 

Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.

99% of people won't forward this.

You and I will.

 

Submitted by : Bonnie Williams