Social Security

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Social Security

HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD
YOU MIGHT WANNA READ THIS !!!!

Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts.

Social Security Cards up until the 1980's expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION message was removed.

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in red.

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, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],

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 [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and Spent], and

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under 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:

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 democratically controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?

A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US

AND MY FAVORITE:
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?

A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though. Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so — but it’s worth a try. How many people can YOU send this to?

Actions speak louder than bumper stickers.

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THIS PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT PAID FOR BY THE GOP

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THIS PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT PAID FOR BY THE GOP

Were you expecting this information to come from the democrats

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THIS PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT PAID FOR BY THE GOP

Were you expecting this information to come from the democrats

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Another great thing the 'Crats did was to call alcoholism and drug dependency disabilities and allowing them to cash in on SS disability payments.

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Social Security: Where Do the 2020 Candidates Stand?
https://news.yahoo.com/social-security- ... 21504.html

The C-SPAN video from 1995 is grainy, but the audio is clear: Sen. Joe Biden is heard bragging about his support for freezing spending on Social Security as part of broader deficit reduction legislation.

“I’m up for re-election this year, and I’m going to remind everybody what I did, at home, which is going to cost me politically. When I argued that we should freeze federal spending, I meant Social Security as well. I meant Medicare and Medicaid. I meant veterans benefits — I meant every single solitary thing in the government,” Biden says in the video. “And I not only tried it once, I tried it twice, I tried it a third time, and I tried it a fourth time.”

The footage is a centerpiece of an attack on Biden launched last month in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses by a rival for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders. Biden has pushed back, and a New York Times review of his record on Social Security over the course of his long Senate career reveals votes in support of protecting benefits as well as cutting them.

The mandatory spending in the chart ( RED ) is social security and medicare

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The mandatory spending in the chart ( RED ) is social security and medicare

Mandatory spending in the chart ( RED ) includes social security and medicare, and a lot more.