SOCIAL SECURITY…ONCE AGAIN
$OCIAL $ECURITY HI$TORY
It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Show it to your teens. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican.
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:
1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary,
***No longer Voluntary
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program,
***Now 7.65% on the first $90,000
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,
***No longer tax deductible
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,
***Under democrat Johnson the money was moved to The General Fund and Spent!
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.
***Under democrats Clinton & Gore…Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month —
and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put
away’ — you may be interested in the following:
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Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democrat controlled House and Senate.
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Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democrat Party.
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Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democrat Party, wit h Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President.
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Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: Jimmy Carter and the Democrat Party…immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democrat Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
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Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you (every election) that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away! The worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
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Just the facts…and now we ARE SURE to hear how its going broke and we can’t look at any private OPTION…notice ONLY public options are allowed by the demo-socialist Party.
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Interesting stuff, reelman...
randy streu (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 4:48PM EST (link)do you have a linkj or links? With historical posts, such things are often useful.
Great resource, if you have citations.
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This has been circulating around the internet as forwarded e-mail messages
civil truth (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 4:55PM EST (link)And the version I saw a while back was identical and did not have citations either.
Not sure how this helps our cause, either. Finger-pointing doesn’t much help when both parties are complicit – such that we now have a huge unfunded liability and no plan to put it on sound actuarial footing.
If true, however, this could be another warning as to the hazards of expansive new federal programs. Not that we’re lacking already for case examples…
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
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that would explain why I haven't seen it...
randy streu (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 4:59PM EST (link)I delete forwards.
If that’s the case, this post should be deleted. Interesting if there are factual cites to back it up. Plagiarism of something most of us would never open given the choice otherwise.
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I thought this 'e-mail forward' got it wrong
michael_68_1999 (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 4:00PM EST (link)and meant SSI being paid to immigrants rather than Social Security.
And then I stumbled upon Snopes’ debunking:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/socialsecurity/changes.asp