This is well worth reading, short and to the point! I received it in an e-mail today.

Our Senators/Congressmen do not pay into Social Security, and, therefore they do not collect from it. Social Security benefits were not suitable for them. They felt they should have a  special plan. Many years ago they voted in their benefit plan. In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan. For all practical purposes, their plan works like this: When they retire no matter how long they have been in office, they continue to draw their same pay until they die, except it may be increased from time to time by cost-of-living adjustments. For example, former Senator Bill Bradley (New Jersey) and his wife may be expected to draw $7,900,000.00 over an average life span, with Mrs. Bradley drawing $275,000.00 during the last year of her life. Their cost for this excellent plan is "$0", nada, zilch. This little perk they voted in for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. Our tax dollars at work! Social Security, which you and I pay into every payday for our own retirement, with an equal amount matched by our employer, we can expect to get an average of $1,000 per month. Or, we would have to collect our benefits for 68 years and 1 month to equal the Bradley's benefits. Imagine for a moment that you could structure a retirement plan so desirable, a retirement plan that worked so well, that Railroad Employees, Postal Workers, and others who were not in the plan would clamor to be included. This is how good Social Security could be, if only one small change was made. That change would be to jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan out from under the Senators/Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us. Watch how fast they fix it!!!

here's another thing on ssa that will piss you off.

rant on

I service the Local regional operations center. They have 12 floors with roughly 200 people per floor working from cubicles. Supposedly all of them answering the phones and handling peoples ssa problems. On any given day i can walk in and watch 75%+ of the employees playing games or BS'ing amongst themselves. With about 5-10% actually working. That equals roughly 100+ people per floor dicking off on your tax dollars.
I spoke with the IT director there and voiced my opinion. Luckily he's a great guy and we agree on lots of stuff. He told me "We know, it's a big problem. Unfortuanantly they are minorities or classed as disabled and practicaly impossible to fire" "We could operate this building with roughly 1/3 the staff if all of them did their jobs." Guys THIS SHIT FROSTED MY ASS!!
I know i will never see a SSA check an all the money i have "DONATED" has been pissed away by welfare broodmares sucking on the government tit.

Ran off

Mike "I want my money back" h.

i raise cain with "Mod" supervisors everytime i go in there. I know is does no good but maybe just one person will hear me bitch and get back to work. I have actually watched them gather around a cubicle and transfer all their calls to one person doing all the work. As a result phone hold times go through the roof.  These leeches are not only draining the country they are effecting peoples live that trully need help.

mike

Ps. DID I MENTION THIS SHIT PISSES ME OFF!!!!!

edited because my brain runs faster than my keyboard finger

i believe alabama state workers do pay ssa tax