Representation Without Honor

Social Security: this is worth reading and is short and to the point. Perhaps we’ve been asking the wrong questions all along from our friendly and promising-over the road-superficial-campaigners during election year. Our Senators and Congressman do not pay into Social Security and of course, they do not collect from it. You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevated stature in society. They felt they should have a special plan suitable for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own special benefit plan. In more recent years, no congress person has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan, why rock the boat when it’s full of treasure.

For all practical purposes their plan works like this: When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die except of course they made sure of their COLA (cost of living adjustment) annually. They also go behind closed doors as they feel fit to secretly vote themselves huge pay raise increases as they have done Many-Many times. For example, former senator Byrd and congressmen 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. This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two dignitaries. Younger dignitaries such as, (John Edwards) who retire at an early age etc: will receive much more during the rest of their lives. Statistics there in: Presiding annually, there are 100 senators and or with 435 House of Representative in congress, you do the math!

Their cost for this excellent plan is $0 that’s Zero dollars Nada, Zilch. This little perk they voted for themselves, is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the general funds our tax dollars at work from our own Social Security plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into every pay day until we retire of (which is matched by our employer) We can expect to get an average of 1,000 per month after retirement! 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 alone!

Let me ask you a question, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to raise your pay and increase your benefits at will like they do and have done without paying into it? These are the very representatives we trusted into office to supposedly lookout for (we the people’s) best interest! Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made, that change would be to jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under each and every one of the Senator and Congressmen and put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us then sit back and watch how fast they would fix.

It’s really hard to comprehend the dilemma that GREED has put us under and done to our country of we, the people of a total disrespect for our Constitutional rights of our pursuit of happiness, but what the heck, that was 220 years ago when Integrity meant something as ratified in 1789, but today, of 2009, our government is instituted among corporate rule deriving their unjust powers from the consent of GREEDY CEO’s that can’t see anything beyond their GREEDY practices. You don’t believe it; Look at what AIG alone wants to do with the bailout money that (we the people) forked out to save their sorry asses from their inept failures from doing even more harm to we, the people’s insecure gloomy future. At we, the people’s expense, they intend to reward themselves with the tune of 175,000,000 deliberately taking advantage of their position. How did we get to this point without the collaboration of government? This is why we are in the shape that we are in today. Greed has no barrier to shame. No matter what, its shame is less honorable than that of a pool of persona-fish devouring everything in its path.

Written and Designed by,

Don L. Johnson