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To: toldyou
Confirmed to be true on www.snopes.com

Post the link, please.

Perhaps you missed where it says some of what you posted is not Limbaugh's:

This piece is also circulating with a coda that looks like it was tacked on by someone else, possibly as a commentary on the article that has now mistakenly been assumed a part of the original article itself:
"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." — Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.

Every time when a pay raise comes up for the military they usually receive next to nothing of a raise. Now the green machine is in combat in the Middle East while their families have to survive on food stamps and live in low rent housing. However our own U.S. Congress just voted themselves a raise, and many of you don't know that they only have to be in Congress one-time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month and most are now equal to be millionaires plus. They also do not receive Social Security on retirement because they didn't have to pay into the system.

If some of the military people stay in for 20 years and get out as an E-7 you may receive a pension of $1,000 per month, and the very people who placed you in harms way receive a pension of $15,000 per month. I would like to see our elected officials pick up a weapon and join ranks before they start cutting out benefits and lowering pay for our sons and daughters who are now fighting.
The claim that Congressmen can receive lavish pensions after serving only a single term in Congress (eventually totalling into the millions of dollars) and that they neither pay into nor receive benefits from the Social Security fund is misinformation already covered on a separate page of this site. (As of 1998, the average annuity for retired members of Congress was about $48,000.)

it is time to forward this to as many people as you can.

Snopes or not, no way those are Limbaugh's words. That's the signature of a spammer.

9 posted on 01/31/2005 10:03:03 AM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: newgeezer

Thanx!


11 posted on 01/31/2005 10:05:47 AM PST by rockrr (Revote or Revolt! It's up to you Washington!)
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To: newgeezer

Thank you!


17 posted on 01/31/2005 11:12:18 AM PST by toldyou
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