Posted on 08/27/2011 11:36:00 PM PDT by Clairity
Yep. I am running for the Board of Supervisor position in my County. GOPAC has the best campaign school, I hear.
I am going at the VIP level which means I go to the reception with the candidates after the debate. I will be speaking to the next President, I believe.
My son in law is a Major MI Officer in the Army and is now posted at Ft Sam in San Antonio. Living in Texas is giving him a better view of what Rick Perry has done for Texas.
Perry 2012
How Three Texas Counties Created Personal Social Security Accounts and Prospered Page 2: Part of the employer contribution in the Alternate Plan goes toward a term life insurance policy, which pays four times the employees salary tax free, up to a maximum of $215,000. Thats nearly 850 times Social Securitys death benefit.
More importantly, if a worker participating in Social Security dies before retirement, he loses his contribution (though part of that money might go to surviving children, if any, or a spouse who didnt work and therefore didnt establish his or her own benefits). But a worker in the Alternate Plan owns his account, so the entire account belongs to the estate. There is also, among other benefits, a disability benefit that pays immediately upon injury, rather than waiting six months, plus other restrictions, as under Social Security.
And those who retire under the Galveston model do much better than Social Security. For example:
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Hildy, that is just wonderful. Keep us posted so we can congratulate you when you win! You go girl. You know we will be pulling for you 100%.
Everybody keeps telling me I should run for SOMETHING, but I don’t think I’m ready for that. A couple of years, maybe.
I was thrilled to hear yesterday on Kudlow’s radio show that per Steve Moore, Rick Perry has been consulting heavily with Arthur Laffer. Music to my ears.
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