Posted on 02/04/2005 1:39:21 PM PST by Graybeard58
Just out of curiosity, do members of Congress pay the Social Security tax?
the walking cadaver....
Oh, gee, THANK YOU, Sen. Reid for ALLOWING us to have "more" of a say in OUR retirement decisions! My, how BIG of you!
What a clueless old tool!
No. They don't. They have some other Savings plan. I forget the name of it, but (as you may expect) it's a sweet deal.
Every congress-critter and sinator should remove themselves from the Thrift Savings Plan and be forced to rely on social security like the rest of us.
You've seen hm walk?I've only seen him sit or stand, but no walking.
I was in Reno, Nevada over the weekend at a gun show. Since the elections are only recently past, there were still a number of billboards around town. Every one that I saw for Reid had the word "independent" on it. No mention of his DemocRATic party affiliation - much less that he was in line to be minority leader in the Senate if Daschle lost. The man is a snake, and not to be trusted.
Reid is Daschle -Lite.
I enjoyed what Fox News reported. See below and note last paragraph on Sen. Reid:
Dems Invoke FDR
Friday, February 04, 2005
By Brit Hume
Now somefresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:
Dems Invoke FDR
Senate Democrats gathered at the Franklin Roosevelt Memorial (search) today to invoke the image of FDR in calling on President Bush to remove private accounts from his Social Security (search) proposal. But it turns out that FDR himself planned to include private investment accounts in the Social Security program when he proposed it.
In a written statement to Congress in 1935, Roosevelt said that any Social Security plans should include, "Voluntary contributory annuities, by which individual initiative can increase the annual amounts received in old age," adding that government funding, "ought to ultimately be supplanted by self-supporting annuity plans."
Last night, Senate minority leader Harry Reid (search) likened the president’s proposal to allow Americans to divert a portion of payroll taxes into personal security investment accounts to "gambling." But in 1999, the Nevada Democrat proposed something very similar on our own "FOX News Sunday" saying, "Most of us have no problem with taking a small amount of the Social Security proceeds and putting it into the private sector."
NO!
Nevadans also know he was heavily backed by the casino owners. One wonders how much of his money is "dirty" money?
Demoncrats. Stupid is thy name.
Einstein understood the fix that the RATS are in:
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
Critical thought is required. I've seen no sign yet from the lefties that they have any intent to think their way out of the fix that they are in.
I would love to see Reid's face when confronted with that part of the Roosevelt Social security plans...
On Fox now with John Gibson
Dumb Robert Reich - sec of labor under Clinton says there is no crisis with social security. Well why did he not correct Clinton when Bubba said there was.
Jeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzz
Lol, Reid sure has charisma, eh?
He makes actor John Carradine seem jolly.
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