You've been taken. Your parents have been taken, and your grandparents have been taken, too. Taken by the looters in our government who conned us into accepting a massive pyramid scheme called Social Security.
FORCED PYRAMID And it is a pyramid scheme: where you put money "into the pie," and I put money into the pie, and lots of others do, too. Then the money we put in is used to pay "big prizes" to those who were in before us and the money paid in by the suckers we swindle into the "program" is used to pay big prizes to us. Then to the next level, which gets larger, and the next, and the next, which gets even larger until it takes more people than exist in the world to create a new level -- and the pyramid begins to crumble at the bottom, soon to collapse, leaving the millions of late-comers to lose the money they put in.
AT THE POINT OF A GUN The major difference between the pyramid schemes that you and I would go to jail for if we promoted them is that this one is run by criminals in our own government, and the only thing that has kept it going for this long is their ability to print money, which you and I can't do. Add to that their ability to force us to participate at the point of a gun, and you see that you've not only been taken by this swindle, you didn't have any choice. You say: "Where's the gun?" I say: "Just try and refuse to contribute `your share' to this swindle and see how quick the gun comes out." They can put people in jail for not contributing to this swindle!
They force your employer not only to deduct "your share" from your pay, but to match the amount they take out for you with their own "contribution." And if you don't pay it, the IRS "audits you," treating this "contribution" as if it were taxes! If you don't pay then, they assess huge penalties which grow geometrically, year after year, just like the vigorish charged by loan sharks on the money foolish people borrow from them, until it's more than you could ever hope to pay without winning the lottery (which is another one of their scams). They normally don't put people in jail for not paying this, but they have molded their collection tactics to a fine art guaranteed to collect from all but the most hard-shelled people with harassment techniques that would have been the envy of the mob. But even so, they do absolutely have the power to put you in jail -- at their whim -- if you continue to refuse to contribute to this swindle.
BUT IT'S INSURANCE -- ISN'T IT? Don't you believe it! They have most everybody convinced that this swindle is a simple "insurance policy" to take care of them in "their declining years," backed by a "fund" into which all the monies that have been extorted from us and our employers over the years has been paid. But The Fund doesn't exist. Oh, the "shell" is still there, but there's nothing in it. It's all gone. All of it.
THEY LOOTED THE FUND AS FAST AS THE MONEY CAME IN Each year, as soon as the figures were in for how much loot they had received, they took it. It's as simple as that. What they really left in The Fund is just a bunch of IOUs they call federal bonds. Think about it: if they don't have the money someday (soon) to redeem these federal bonds -- just who do you think is going to have to come up with the money? You're right if you think it is you -- and your children, and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren as long as they can keep it from crumbling by raising "their share" more and more each year until it gets to the point where it's so much money that they actually begin to realize that I've been right all along and they are just the last of a long line of people who have been taken in this giant looter-sponsored con using the force and power of the federal government to keep it going long enough for them to take the money and run.
And those who created this monster have done just that. Where is FDR today? Dead, of course, along with everyone else who created this massive swindle. They all died rich, with all the perks of the "elite." They left large estates ("insulated" from inheritance taxes -- another of their scams -- of course) to their children. With your money. The looters who continue this swindle today plan on doing the same if they can keep it going long enough by raising your "contribution" every time they can to keep the payoffs going just a little longer.
THE FIGURES ARE IN! The figures are now in, and show you graphically that even if they were able to keep this massive swindle going on forever, you're still getting shafted every day it goes on. The Heritage Foundation recently issued a chart which shows exactly how much of your hard-earned money the government looters have stolen from you, based upon your birthdate, typical wages earned, and the time you become 65 (an average: your figures might even be worse). It shows the difference between what you would have at your retirement if you had been allowed to invest your own money at the long-term market average interest rate of 7%, as opposed to what you will get from your Social Security.
In my own case, having been born in 1937, I would have an annual income of $41,295 and a "nest-egg" to leave my kids of $589,932. Of course, I have to deduct the piddling $11,888 annually Social Security would pay me until I die from the $41,295, which leaves me with "only" $29,407.00 annually ($565.52 a week more). So that's how much they've stolen from me. Why don't you look at the chart and see just how much they've stolen from you? I've decided to "opt out." They can continue to take money from me, since I can't stop them. But I'm not going to "dance to their tune" to get part of my own money returned to me. I will not be signing up for my pittance and be forced to earn less than I'm able -- or not work at all -- in order to keep the Social Security dole coming.
THE SOCIAL SECURITY PYRAMID IS CRUMBLING What you've been seeing lately is the crumbling of the pyramid, and you, or your children will be the losing level who gets nothing out of it and loses their entire investment. Then what will you do for your retirement? The government's own figures show that the collapse will come in the early part of the next century and what are you going to do?
THERE WON'T BE ANY SOCIAL SECURITY It's going to collapse. There isn't anything anybody can do to stop it. All pyramids eventually collapse because it takes more people than there are in existence to keep them from it. This one is no different, even though they've been able to delay the collapse by using the power to manipulate the money supply -- a power they got when they created the Federal Reserve System (another of their cons)to put it off. They can't stall the inevitable forever. It is going to collapse, probably in your lifetime -- maybe even in mine -- and what's going to happen to you then? Are your children and grandchildren going to "take you in" and support you for the rest of your life while paying confiscatory "contributions" to a decaying pyramid scheme?
MAKING YOU A DEPENDENT Did you ever wonder what the purpose of Social Security is? "Forced Altruists" have all kinds of schemes whose simple aim is to make others dependent upon them and their decisions for the very necessities of life so those others will continue to vote them back into office, time after time, to keep the money coming, and they will be able to continue to run other people's lives and spend those people's money as if it were their own (you don't have to own the money if you have complete control over how it is spent). They don't want your money, per se -- because with power comes the perks that rich people get, along with the intoxicating ability to tell other people what they may, and may not do -- with the power of the law to make it stick.
LET THEM CONTINUE -- OR STOP THEM? Are you going to let them keep on with this swindle? Or are you going to do something about changing things so that you will be able to control your own destiny -- and with a lot more money for your retirement than you'll ever be able to hope for under this scam? If you continue to allow them to swindle you while you spend your time on "everyday matters" such as washing the car or going to work every day -- or even watching TV, you're going to suffer. Maybe you'll even starve because when you come to the bureaucrats later, they just won't care. They've got theirs.
