GREAT Facebook Status -- make it go viral if you use FB please

[Donnachaidh]

I PAID cash for my Social Security insurance! Our benefits aren’t some kind of charity or handout! Congressional benefits—premium federal 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 an entitlement?

Repost if you are sick of their crap.

[aquart]

1. Done.

[Oceansaway]

2. k & r..nt

[calimary]

3. DONE!

And YES I am SICK of their CRAP!!!!!!!

[calimary]

16. Hey, just posted a few minutes ago and already I have 8 likes and 5 comments.

All the comments are positive in nature. And I don't think the posters are all Dems, either.

Try it! Let's go viral with it!

[titaniumsalute]

4. Kick

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. K&r

no shit!

[Gin]

6. done

[WheelWalker]

7. Roger that. k&r

[Contrary1]

8. Done! n/t

[titaniumsalute]

9. Done

[snappyturtle]

10. Just copied and ready to paste....Thank you...great idea! Goin' to FB now. nt

[HockeyMom]

11. I've been pay into SS since I was 17 FULL TIME

I am 62 now and still cannot collect 100% from it. You want me to wait HALF A CENTURY?

[Sherman A1]

29. Started when I was 14 and I will have to wait for

more than half a century to collect "full" benefits as I recall the goal post being moved in the 1980's courtesy of the last "crisis".

[musette_sf]

36. +1

[sandyj999]

12. On MY Way

And Done!

[LaydeeBug]

13. i posted this last week....yay nt

[sunflowerseed]

14. done

[ejpoeta]

15. they also have that snazzy gym too that weiner took some of those pics from.

also, they collect retirement at 55 not 67 and climbing like us little peons.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

17. Done. I also found this on FB.

From the Atlantic:

It's based on data from the Congressional Budget Office and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Its significance is not partisan (who's "to blame" for the deficit) but intellectual. It demonstrates the utter incoherence of being very concerned about a structural federal deficit but ruling out of consideration the policy that was largest single contributor to that deficit, namely the Bush-era tax cuts.

Read more:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/the-chart-that-should-accompany-all-discussions-of-the-debt-ceiling/242484/#.TjFviyII7bY.facebook

[SweepPicker]

18. I'm not retired so............

how about I change it up for me and others that are not retired to this: Our retirees PAID cash for their Social Security insurance! Their benefits aren’t some kind of charity or handout! Congressional benefits—premium federal 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 our retirement an entitlement?

[Major Hogwash]

19. Hell, it just might even be worth joining Facebook to say something like that.

Or saying something like, "What Would Reagan Do?"

Sort of a nuanced version of Ava Lowery's "What Would Jesus Do?" anti-war videos.

[Cannikin]

20. Done!

[Fuzzbuzz]

21. DONE!

R&K

[MelissaB]

22. Done!

[Lugnut]

23. Done. n/t

[Lifelong Protester]

24. Done!!

and sick of this crap is putting it mildly.

[diane in sf]

25. done

[BillyJack]

26. What if you don't 'do' facebook? n/t

[coalition_unwilling]

27. Done. Edited the generic 'they' and 'their' to focus specifically on

Repukes.

[BigBearJohn]

28. done

[Chimichurri]

30. kr

[AllyCat]

31. Hmmm... swiped this from a DU member last week and posted it on FB

Did the DUer swipe it from FB or did I help a DUer make something go viral :) Anyway, I also had even REALLY conservative friends agree with it.

[laylah]

Done! K&R

[laylah]

32. Done! K&R

[shireen]

33. can we verify some of this?

what are the 67 paid holidays?
what are the details of the retirement package?

I don't want to post something without verifying the facts. Can anyone help us out with this?

[plantwomyn]

34. What's worse is that

you are not entitled to your Social Security. Per the SCOTUS your social security payments are not guaranteed and are not yours they are owned by the government. Fleming v. Nestor
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5776
"In other words, Social Security is not an insurance program at all. It is simply a payroll tax on one side and a welfare program on the other."

But if it were up to me they would make it a "personal" account but NOT privatize it.

[ej510]

35. Done, I will be surprised if anyone responds to that post.

[Omaha Steve]

37. I'm in

[PatSeg]

38. K&R

[Hubert Flottz]

39. K&Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Couldn't have said it better myself!

[louslobbs]

40. Big K&R here!

way to go Donna, absolutely beautiful.......will post on Facebook.
Lou

[Deep13]

41. Well, that's what "entitlement" means.

It's owed to people of retirement age as a matter of right. It's also a prime example of a successful social welfare program, even though we don't call it that because of the sigma that the word "welfare" carries.

[unapatriciated]

42. done

[graywarrior]

43. Thanks, shared it.

[pam4water]

44. K&R but I don't use FB :(

[orbitalman]

45. K and R

[MilesColtrane]

46. *facepalm*

[Paper Roses]

47. Done!

[Harriety]

48. I totally agree. But I'm done with Facebook....

[snappyturtle]

49. Did this yesterday. Goin to go check now and see if I got any "Likers"....doubt it.

[snappyturtle]

50. I did this yesterday and got only one "Like". Sad, but true. nt

[kaycee22]

51. Done

[maynard]

52. just posted it..........