Senior Citizen Resource Center

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The hot issue today is "Social Security and Medicare Funds Shrinking".

This isn’t what you planned for, is it? You worked and saved all those years, for what? Your pension plan took a big hit, your 401K is not what you thought and your stocks are on the downside. What do you have left that isn’t going down, a home that you can no longer afford, an American car that is not worth anything? The Government is bailing out Insurance Companies, Automobile Manufactures, Banks and the Stock Exchange, but will not pay back the loans it owes to the Social Security Administration.

Seems that our Congress wants to give our benefits, Social Security and Medicare, to illegal immigrants, is that fair? The Government warns that the Social Security and Medicare will go broke by 2017. If that’s the case, why is the Government giving our benefits that we worked and paid for to illegal immigrants? How can Medicare go broke if 46M retires pay $98.00 every month? Do you know how many Billions that is?
You think something is wrong here?

Social Security has always been in trouble, one reason is that the Government has borrowed money that was never paid back. Another reason is that Social Security is not governed, as it should be. All recipients should be required to pay into the system before they receive a monthly payment. Illegal immigrants should not be allowed to receive any type of payment. How do you expect Social Security to stay afloat if they keep giving money away? Did you know that the Social Security sends $40M worth of payments to people who are deceased? Who cash’s those payment checks?

Did you know that some 80M baby boomers are expected to retire in the next two decades? We got some interesting news for them concerning Medicare.

We though the stimulus package was to straighten out the mess we’re in. We were lead to believe that the stimulus package was to create jobs in all sectors, lower taxes, keep people in their homes, and get the economy back on it’s feet again. Well the Government has spent almost $500B and the unemployment rate is now at 9.5% and rising.

We had one politician suggest that the stimulus monies should be used for the study of fish, why fish do what fish do. Another politician wanted $16M to study a harvest mouse. Still another politician wanted to build a $3.5M underground passage for turtles. Yet another wanted to build a railway direct to Las Vegas, Nevada from Los Angeles, California. You know something, three out of the four got what they wanted. And these are the politician’s that we voted for. Why?

Is this what we really need?

Hey, here’s something new and this will work, check out a realistic stimulus plan.

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