SOCIAL SECURITY BEING WRONGFULLY NAMED AS FEDEAL BENEFIT PAYMENT!

Submitted by: Helen Blackburn

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.