This e-mail about Social Security seems to be making the rounds

[young_at_heart]

Our Social Security


Many years ago in Seattle, two wonderful neighbors,
Elliott and Patty Roosevelt came to my home to swim on
a regular basis. They were a great couple full of
laughter and stories that today I continue to marvel
at. Both are now deceased, but their stories remain.
During the years of our friendship we had many, many
discussions about Elliott's parents (President Franklin D.
and Eleanor Roosevelt) and how his father and mother
never intended for the Social Security and Welfare
programs to turn out the way they are today. Elliott
used to say that if his parents returned to earth and
saw what the politicians had done to their programs
they would have burned all of them in hell.

Here is a story I received today regarding the Social
Security Program and I immediately thought of
Elliott's comments. I Hope you will read
this and think about it.

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Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social
Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be
completely voluntary,

2.) That the participants would only have to pay
1% of the first $1,400 of their annual
incomes into the Program,

3.) That the money the participants elected to put
into the Program would be deductible from
their income for tax purposes each year,

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,

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees
would never be taxed as income.
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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 democratically
controlled House and Senate.

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

A: The Democratic Party.

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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.

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

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!

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Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and violating
of 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!
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If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of
awareness will be planted and maybe changes will
evolve. Maybe not, 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.

Forward this E-mail to others so that they can
be informed of the truth

[mzteris]

1. snopes info about this

http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/sschanges.asp

[BOSSHOG]

2. No doubt the purpose is to "plant a seed."

I don't know why they waste their time. The ignorant trash that is the "conservative" base does not need any encouragement to vote against their best interests; their ignorance and pride will take care of that.

[young_at_heart]

4. The friends who sent this are very educated---came as a big surprise

She has a doctorate and he has two masters....physics and astronomy. We will send them the Snopes stuff and see if they respond.

[BOSSHOG]

5. The ones sending the nonsense

have ulterior motives, no need for social security. They want the grunts to do the work and they know the grunts are easily motivated. Yeah, if I were a "conservative" in my trailor checking my email, I'd run right out and do my damndest to end Social Security as we know it.

[beyurslf]

3. I love how the end of it says that "the worst part about it is uninformed

citizens believe it!"

The truly worst part is that it takes about 3 mins on snopes to find out this email is full of shit and lies.

<http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/sschanges.asp>

[mcscajun]

6. The worst part is we can spend hours upon weeks upon months

debunking it, and still it lives.

One lie goes around the world via the Internet and propagates so quickly it's like trying to behead the Hydra. The truth trods a much tougher road.