JODI SAID IT...THEN BURNT FOOD DUDE SAID IT...NOW I'M SAYING IT!!

From Steve at Burnt Food Dude:

Again I was visiting some of my favorite blogs and Jodi of Jodi’s Journey wrote this article. It seems Jodi and I have similar views on current politics along with Don Chute and Sandee from Comedy Plus. I am reprinting this from Jodi’s blog with her permission.

Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only 30K over your working life, that’s close to $220,500. If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer’s contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working (me) you’d have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year, you receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years, and that’s with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you’d have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month. The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madhoff ever had.

Entitlement my ass, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!! Just because they borrowed the money, doesn’t make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!! Congressional benefits, aka. free health care, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that’s welfare, and they have the nerve to call my retirement entitlements !!!!!!

What the HELLS wrong??? WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!

Tuesday’s Daily Bulletin paper, ran two articles on the front page side by side :

1- Calif ‘s 20 Billion Dollar Budget Deficit

2- The Calif Supreme Court ruling that ILLEGALS can attend college and get benefits. Why don’t they just deport them when they arrive to register?

3- Last year they ran an article on the yearly costs to Calif Taxpayers from Illegals using Hospital Emergency Rooms for their general health care – At just one hospital the cost to tax payers totaled over 25 million a year.

Someone please tell me what the HELLS wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!!

We’re “broke” & can’t help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????

In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, and Turkey. And now Pakistan ……home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!

Our retired seniors living on a ‘fixed income’ receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$’s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!

They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when its time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place?

We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.

AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without ‘needed’ meds, and mentally ill without treatment – etc. etc.

YET………………..

They have a ‘Benefit’ for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents clothes, bedding, doctors and medical supplies.

Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave ‘US’ the same support they give to other countries.

Sad isn’t it?

The more bloggers that write about this, maybe, just maybe we can put bug into Congress to do the right thing.

Me:  Ditto on all of that...United We Stand, Divided We Fall...Let's put Washington in their places...That place is at OUR TABLE, NOT THIERS!!

Dropkick Murphy's Boys On the Docks with lyrics.

[Dedicated to the memory of John Kelly]

Say hey Johnny boy, the battle call.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Together we are what we can't be alone,

We came to this country, you made it our home.

This man so humble, this man so brave.

A legend to many, he fought to his grave.

Saved family and friends from the hardship and horror,

in a land of depression he gave hope for tomorrow.

Say Johnny me boy, this ones for you.

With the strength of many and the courage of few.

To what do we owe this man who's fight

was for the masses, he gave his life.

Say hey Johnny boy, the battle call

United we stand, divided we fall.

Together we are what we can't be alone,

We came to this country, you made it our home.

A friend to the locals who dabbled in crime.

He'd give you a job and he'd give you his time.

He wasn't a crook, but he couldn't be conned.

John knew the difference between right and wrong.

Say Johnny me boy, you live no longer,

Others forgotten, your memory's stronger.

Lets drink to the causes in your life:

Your family, your friends, the union, your wife.

Say hey Johnny boy, the battle call.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Together we are what we can't be alone.

We came to this country, you made it our home.

[x2]

And the boys on the docks needed John for sure.

When they came to this country he opened the door.

He said "Man I'll tell ya, they don't like our kind.

Though it starts with a fist it must end with your mind."

Say hey Johnny boy, the battle call.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Together we are what we can't be alone.

We came to this country you made it our home.