Showing posts with label Al Gore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Al Gore. Show all posts

Saturday, November 3, 2012

History Lesson on Your Social Security Card

History Lesson on Your Social Security Card 
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 1980s 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 message, NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION, was removed.

An old Social Security card with the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message.
Our Social Security

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

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


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, and,

Under Johnson the money was moved to

The General Fund and Spent



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:

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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 MY 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 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!  Don't be a political dummy.....get educated and vote responsibly!

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

A TWITTER TV Show? and What Would Al Gore Do??

Twitter explores a TV show .....

In Mashable The Social Media Guide, talks about what I might call a twitter-com for TV instead of a "sitcom". I don't really want to know what the movie & TV "stars" are doing at any given moment in time, but my imaginative juices have been working overtime creating in my mind ideas for a tv show that has a storyline of how twittering tweets affects their lives - especially from a mobile phone or one of the other high tech gadgets that I know nothing about. It would take some creative writing to have twitter engaging dialogue between tweeters and the consequences from same. I can see hilarity ensuing! Maybe there will be a bidding war happening for an item up for auction at Online Auction! What men talk about...or women...or a man and a woman...a foreign language tech service representative on a help line trying to tweet...a Dr's office relaying test results...neighborhood sleuths...

Anyway, the article was an interesting one...check it out! Click Here for Twitter Article


Speaking of new TV shows, Wednesday May 27 is the debut of a new animated series ‘The Goode Family,’ which pokes fun at a household of environmentalists living in the Midwest.


An article in the Life and Style section of the Wall Street Journal, written by Jamin Brophy-Warren has this to say about Director Mike Judge’s new animated television series "The Goode Family" which is a send-up of a clan of environmentalists who live by the words "What would Al Gore do?"

Gerald and Helen Goode want nothing more than to minimize their carbon footprint. They feed their dog, Che, only veggies (much to the pet’s dismay) and Mr. Goode dutifully separates sheets of toilet paper when his wife accidentally buys two-ply. And, of course, the family drives a hybrid.

From the creator of ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’ and ‘King of the Hill’. Sounds like the perfect spoof on environmentalists, being politically correct, and being TOO green to defy common sense. I for one, will be watching...at least once!!!

Click Here for Preview of The Goode Family


Back to living the senior life...

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maxine mind wander

...and the one that sums it all up...

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I have this dern short term memory loss...

What the heck, throw all caution to the wind and head over to OnlineAuction.com to the Quarter Ante Sale....
It is being held at www.OnlineAuction.com

Participating members, in this event, list one or two auctions that start at a quarter. The listings run for 7 days. May 23 to May 30, 2009.

Shoppers and Bidders need only to register with OLA so you can bid on any of these items.
CLICK HERE for Online Auction

Then you simply put QA in the search box and you'll see all the auctions that began at only $.25!!

Make it a SUNSHINE Day!!!


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