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SOCIAL SECURITY
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into
prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to
lift himself up by the handle."
Winston Churchill
SOCIAL SECURITY:
When Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat,
introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program.
He promised:
1) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary
2) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program,
3) That the money the
participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their
income for tax purposes each year,
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
5) That the annuity
payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.
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:
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.
Q: Which Political
Party eliminated the income tax deduction for
Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
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
Q: Which Political Party decided to
start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
MY FAV
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!
Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and violation of the original
contract (
And the worst part about it is, uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a
seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve.
How many people can YOU send this to?
Do you
Care?
Written by a housewife
from
"Are
we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by
Islamic people who brought it to our shores on
September
11, 2001? Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally
murdered that day, in downtown
and
children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?
And I'm supposed to care that a
copy of the Koran was "desecrated"
when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet...Well,
I don't.
I don't care at all.
I'll start caring when Osama bin
Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating
all those innocent people on 9/11. I'll care about the Koran
when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible,
the mere possession of which is a crime in
I'll care when
these thugs tell the world they are sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's
head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.
I'll care when the cowardly so-called
"insurgents" in
I'll care
when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana care
about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs.
I'll
care when the American media stops pretending that their First Amendment
liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the
In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing
up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information,
know this:
I don't care.
When
I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners who have been humiliated
in what amounts to a college-hazing incident, rest assured:
I don't care.
When
I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move
because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank:
I don't care!
When
I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed
"special" food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is
complaining that his holy book is being "mishandled," you can
absolutely believe in your heart of hearts:
I don't care.
And
oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled "Koran"
and other times "Quran." Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and -you guessed
it -
I don't care! ! ! ! !
If
you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on to all your e-mail friends. Sooner or later, it'll get to the
people responsible for this ridiculous behavior!
If
you don't agree, then by all means hit the delete button. Should you choose
the latter, then please don't complain when more
atrocities committed by radical Muslims happen here in our great country!
And
may I add: "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they
made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have
that problem." -- Ronald Reagan
I
have another quote that I would like to add AND.......I hope you forward all
this.
"If we ever forget that we're One Nation under God, then we
will be a nation gone under." Also by...
Ronald Reagan
One
last thought for the day:
In case we find ourselves starting to believe all the anti-American sentiment and negativity, we should remember
"A
simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want
in...And how many want out."
Only
two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:
1. Jesus Christ
2. The American G. I.
One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS THIS ON, AS MANY SEEM TO FORGET BOTH OF
THEM.
AMEN!
A college professor was
teaching his class. He shocked several of his students when he
flatly stated that there is no God, the expression,
"One Nation Under God", was unconstitutional,
and further, he was going to prove there is no God.
Addressing the ceiling
he shouted: "God, if you are real, then I want
you to knock me off this platform.
I'll give you 15minutes!"
The lecture room fell silent. You could have heard a pin fall.
Ten minutes went by. Again he taunted God, saying, "Here I am,
God. I'm still waiting."
His countdown got down to the last couple of minutes when a Marine just
released from active duty and newly registered in the class walked up to the
professor, hit him full force in the face, and sent him ass over teacups from
his lofty platform.
The professor was out
cold!
At first the students
were shocked and babbled in confusion.
The young Marine took a seat in the front row and sat silent.
The class fell silent... waiting.
Eventually, the professor came to,
shaken. He looked at the young Marine in the front
row. When he regained his senses and could speak he yelled,
"What's the matter with you? Why did you do that?"
"God was busy. He sent me."
God Bless
This has got to be one of
the most clever
E-mails I've received in a while.
Someone out there either has too much
spare time or is deadly at Scrabble.
(wait till you see
the last one)!
DORMITORY:
When
you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY
ROOM
PRESBYTERIAN:
When
you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN
PRAYER
ASTRONOMER:
When
you rearrange the letters:
MOON
STARER
DESPERATION:
When
you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE
ENDS IT
THE EYES:
When
you rearrange the letters:
THEY
SEE
GEORGE
BUSH:
When
you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS
GORE
THE
MORSE CODE:
When
you rearrange the letters:
HERE
COME DOTS
SLOT
MACHINES:
When
you rearrange the letters:
CASH
LOST IN ME
ANIMOSITY:
When
you rearrange the letters:
IS NO
AMITY
ELECTION RESULTS:
When
you rearrange the letters:
LIES -
LET'S RECOUNT
MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When
you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN
HITLER
SNOOZE
ALARMS:
When
you rearrange the letters:
ALAS!
NO MORE Z 'S
A
DECIMAL POINT:
When
you rearrange the letters:
IM A
DOT IN PLACE
THE
EARTHQUAKES:
When
you rearrange the letters:
THAT
QUEER SHAKE
ELEVEN
PLUS TWO:
When
you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE
PLUS ONE
AND FOR
THE GRAND FINALE:
PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA:
When
you rearrange the letters
(With
no letters left over and using each letter only once):
TO
COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS
Yep!
Someone with waaaaaaaaaaay
too
much time on their hands!
Bet your friends haven't seen this one!!!
To Kill an American
You probably missed it in
the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in
So an Australian dentist
wrote the following to let everyone know what an American is... so they would
know when they found one. (Good on ya, mate!!!!)
An American is English, or
French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek.
An American may also be
Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian,
Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan.
An American may also be a
Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other
tribes known as Native Americans.
An American is Christian,
or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim.
In fact, there are more
Muslims in
An American is also free
to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the
government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.
An American lives in the
most prosperous land in the history of the world.
The root of that
prosperity can be found in the Declaration of
An American is generous.
Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their
time of need.
When the Soviet army
overran
As of the morning of
September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in
Americans welcome the
best, the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the
best athletes.
But they also welcome the
least.
The national symbol of
Some of them were working
in the
So you can try to kill an
American if you must.
Hitler did.
So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and every
bloodthirsty tyrant in the history of the world.
But, in doing so you would
just be killing yourself. Because Americans are not a
particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of
the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is
an American.
Author unknown
Pass this around the World
Forrest Gump goes to heaven
The day finally arrives: Forrest Gump
dies and goes to Heaven. He is at the Pearly Gates, met by St. Peter
himself.
The test is short and you have to pass
before you can get into heaven. The questions are:
1) What days of the week begin with the
letter T?
2) How many seconds are there in a
year?
3) What is God's first name?"
Forrest says, "Well, the first
one-how many days in the week begin with the letter T? That's an easy one. That
would be today and
Tomorrow."
The Saint's eyes opened wide and he
exclaimed, "Forrest, that's not what I was thinking, but I'll give you
credit for that answer."
"How about the next one?"
asks St. Peter. "How many
seconds in a year?" Forrest, "but I thunk
and thunk and I guess the only answer can be
twelve."
Astounded, St. Peter says,
"Twelve? Twelve? Forrest, how in Heaven's name
could you come up with twelve seconds in a year?"
"Shucks, there's gotta be twelve: January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd...
"Hold it," interrupts St.
Peter. "I see where you are going with this, and I'll have to give you
credit for that one, too.
Let's go on with the next and final
question.
Can you tell me God's first name?"
"Sure", Forrest replied,
"it's Andy."
"Andy?" exclaimed an
exasperated and frustrated St. Peter. "OK, I can understand how you came
up with your answers to my first two questions, but just how in the world did
you come up with the name of Andy as the first name of God?"
"That was the easiest one of
all," Forrest replied.
"ANDY WALKS WITH ME, ANDY TALKS
WITH ME, ANDY TELLS ME I AM HIS OWN."
St. Peter opened the
Pearly Gates and said: "Run, Forrest, run!"
This has been around before, but it is still good reading today
WHAT SENATOR JOHN GLENN SAID
Things that make you think a little:
There were 39 combat related killings in
In the fair city of
That's just one American city,
About as deadly as the entire war-torn country of
When some claim that President Bush shouldn't have started this war,
state the following:
1. FDR led us into World War II.
2.
From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost... an average of
112,500 per year.
3. Truman finished that war and started one in
From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost ... an average of 18,334 per
year.
4.John F. Kennedy started the
5. Johnson turned
6.
He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on
a platter three times by
7. In the years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush
has liberated two
countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear
inspectors in Libya, Iran, and, North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a
terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.
The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking.
But
It took less time to take
That was a 51-day operation.
We've been looking for evidence for chemical weapons in
It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to
destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police
after his Oldsmobile
sank at Chappaquiddick.
It took less time to take
Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB!
The Military morale is high!
The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize the facts
But Wait .
There's more!
JOHN GLENN (ON THE SENATE FLOOR)
Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:13
Some people still don't understand why military personnel do what
they do for a living. This exchange between Senators John Glenn and Senator
Howard Metzenbaum is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty
impressive impromptu
speech, it is also a good example of one man's explanation of why men and women in
the armed services
do what they do for a living.
This IS a typical, though sad, example of what
some who have never served think of the military.
Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator
Glenn):
"How can you run for Senate when you've never held a real job?"
Senator Glenn (D-Ohio):
"I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps.
I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by
anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions.
I was in the space program. It wasn't my checkbook, Howard;
it was my life on the line. It was not a nine-to-five job, where I took time off to
take the daily
cash receipts to the bank."
"I ask you to go with me ... as I went the other day...
to a veteran's
hospital and look those men ...with their mangled bodies, in the eye, and tell THEM they didn't hold a job!
You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone,
to the widows and Orphans of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee... and you look those kids
in the eye and tell them that their DADS didn't hold a job.
You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in
You stand there, Howard, and you think about this nation, and you tell ME that
those people didn't have a job?"
(For those who don't remember or know..
During W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an
attorney representing
the Communist Party in the
Now He is a Senator!!
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
If you are reading it in English thank a Veteran.
(It might not be a bad Idea, to keep this circulating!! )
Anyone
remember this??
It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were
playing an old news video of Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the
Reagan Administration.
There was Ollie in front of
God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning!
He was being drilled by a
senator; "Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security
system?"
Ollie replied, "Yes, I did,
Sir."
The senator continued, trying to
get a laugh out of the audience, "Isn't that just a little
excessive?"
"No, sir," continued
Ollie.
"No? And why not?" the
senator asked.
"Because the lives of my family
and I were threatened, sir."
"Threatened? By whom?"
the senator questioned.
"By a terrorist, sir"
Ollie answered.
"Terrorist? What terrorist
could possibly scare you that much?"
"His name is Osama bin
Laden, sir" Ollie replied.
At this point the senator tried
to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then
probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator
continued. Why are you so afraid of this man?" the senator asked.
"Because, sir, he is the
most evil person alive that I know of", Ollie answered.
"And what do you recommend we do about him?"
asked the senator.
"Well, sir, if it was
up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him
and his men from the face of the earth."
The senator disagreed with this
approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip.
By the way, that senator was Al Gore!
Also:
Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta
blew up a bus in
However, the Israelis would
not release any with blood on their hands, The American President at the time,
Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher,
"insisted" that all prisoners be released.
Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and
eventually thanked the
It was censored in the
If you agree that the American
public should be made aware of this fact, pass this on.
Doctor Visit
A young brunette goes into the doctor's office and says that her
body hurts wherever she touches it.
"Impossible," says the doctor. "Show me."
She takes her finger and pushes her elbow and screams in agony.
She pushes her knee and screams, pushes her ankle and screams and so it goes
on, everywhere she touches makes her scream.
The doctor says, "You're not really a brunette, are
you?"
She says, "No, I'm really a blonde."
"I thought so," he says. "Your finger is broken."
Editorial
An
interesting perspective about our "Drive by Media." Victor
Davis Hanson is a professor at
Eye
of the Beholder by Victor Davis Hanson The American
War
torn
As a
fifth generation Californian, I deeply love this state, but still imagine what
the reaction would be if the world awoke each morning to be told that once
again there were six more murders, 27 rapes, 38 arsons, 180 robberies, and 360
instances of assault in California yesterday, today, tomorrow, and every
day. I wonder if the headlines would scream about "Nearly 200 poor
Californians butchered again this month!"
How
about a monthly media dose of "600 women raped in February alone!" Or
try, "Over 600 violent robberies and assaults in March, with no end in
sight!" Those do not even make up all of the state's yearly 200,000
violent acts that law enforcement knows about.
Some
of
Much
is made of the inability to patrol
Every
year, over 4,000 Californians die in car crashes - more than the number of
Americans lost so far in the years of combat operations in
In
2001,
We're
told that
So
is
I
myself recently returned home to
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(c)2006
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University , a Professor
Emeritus at California University , Fresno , and a nationally syndicated
columnist for Tribune Media Services.
He was a full-time
farmer before joining
Hanson was a National
Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the
Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California (1992_93), a visiting professor of
classics at Stanford University (1991_92), a recipient of the Eric Breindel Award for opinion journalism (200 2), and an
Alexander Onassis Fellow (2001) and was named alumnus of the year of the
University of California, Santa Cruz (2002).
He was also the
visiting Shifrin Chair of Military History at the
"If
It Weren't For The
For more info on writer: http://www.hoover.org/bios/hanson.html
