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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 16, 2004 11:37 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Verdana
color=#ff0000 size=5 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="18"><B>GET A BILL STARTED TO
PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC. SEC. </FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 size=3
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff"></B><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10" BACK="#ffffff"><BR> </FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000 size=5
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"><B><U>2004 Election
Issue!!</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial
color=#000000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff"></B></U>
<BR><BR>
<P align=center></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000 size=4 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="14"
BACK="#ffffff"><B><U>This must be an issue in "2004". Please! Keep it
going.</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial
color=#000000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff"></B></U>
<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000 size=4 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="14"
BACK="#ffffff"><B>----------------------------------</FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 size=3
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff"></B> <BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=5
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"><B>SOCIAL SECURITY:</FONT><FONT
lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 size=3
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff"></B> <BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000000 size=5
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"><U>(This is worth reading. It is
short and to the point.)</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face=Arial color=#000000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12"
BACK="#ffffff"></U> <BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=5
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"><B>Perhaps we are asking the wrong
questions during election years. </FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 size=3
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff"></B><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10" BACK="#ffffff"><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=5
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"><B>Our Senators and Congresswomen do
not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from
it.</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial
color=#000000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff"></B>
<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=5 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18"
BACK="#ffffff"><B>You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for
</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Arial Black"
color=#ff0000 size=6 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="24" BACK="#ffffff">persons of
their rare elevation in society.</FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=5
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"> They felt they should have a special
plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own</B>
<BR><BR><B> </FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face="Arial Black" color=#ff0000 size=6 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="24"
BACK="#ffffff">benefit plan.</FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=5
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"></B> <BR><BR><B>In more recent years,
no congress person has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great
plan.</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#007f40 size=3 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff"></B>
<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=5 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18"
BACK="#ffffff"><B>For all practical purposes their plan works like
this:</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#007f40 size=3 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff"></B>
<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000 size=5 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18"
BACK="#ffffff"><B>When they retire, they</FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=5
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"> </FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Arial Black" color=#ff0000 size=6
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="24" BACK="#ffffff">continue to draw the same pay
until they die.</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=5 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18"
BACK="#ffffff"> </B><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"
BACK="#ffffff"><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#c00000 size=5 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18"
BACK="#ffffff"><B>Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living
adjustments.</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=3 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="12"
BACK="#ffffff"></B> <BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#c00000 size=5
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"><B>For example, former Senator Byrd
and Congressman 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.</FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=3
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff"></B> <BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#c00000 size=5
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"><B>This is calculated on an average
life span for each of those two Dignitaries.</FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=3
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff"></B> <BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Arial Black" color=#ff0000 size=5
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"><B>Younger Dignitaries</FONT><FONT
lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40
size=5 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"> who retire at an early age,
will receive much more during the rest of their lives.</FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#007f40 size=2
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10" BACK="#ffffff"></B> <BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=5
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"><B>Their cost for this excellent plan
is </FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Arial Black"
color=#ff0000 size=6 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="24" BACK="#ffffff">$0.00.
NADA....ZILCH....</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=5 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18"
BACK="#ffffff"></B> <BR><BR><B>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;</FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=3
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff"></B> <BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=5
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"><B> </FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Arial Black" color=#ff0000 size=6
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="24" BACK="#ffffff">"OUR TAX DOLLARS AT
WORK"!</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#007f40 size=5 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"></B>
<BR><BR><B>From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid)
into, </FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Arial Black"
color=#000000 size=4 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="14" BACK="#ffffff">-every payday
until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer)-</FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=5
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"> we can expect to get an average of
$1,000 per month after retirement. </B><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10" BACK="#ffffff"><BR><B>Or, in other words, we
would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for </FONT><FONT
lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#ff0000
size=6 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="24" BACK="#ffffff">68 years and one (1)
month</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#007f40 size=5 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"> <U>to equal
Senator Bill Bradley's benefits!</B></U> <BR><BR><B>Social Security could be
very good if only one small change were made.</FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=3
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff"></B> <BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=6
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="24" BACK="#ffffff"><B><U>That change would be to jerk
the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen. Put
them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us ... then sit back and
watch how fast they would fix it.</FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=3
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="12" BACK="#ffffff"></B></U> <BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=5
FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"><B>If enough people receive this,
maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will
evolve.</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#007f40 size=3 FAMILY="SCRIPT" PTSIZE="12"
BACK="#ffffff"></B> <BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="Arial Black" color=#007f40 size=5
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="18" BACK="#ffffff"><B>How many people can YOU send
this to?</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial
color=#000000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12"
BACK="#ffffff"></B><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"
BACK="#ffffff"><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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