Bad news for Medicare? R U Gonna Stay Silent?

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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:24:52 -0500
From: michael.phelan@socialsecurityworks.org
To: angusfarms@hotmail.com
Subject: Bad news for Medicare

		Take Action Make this victory count by standing up to Medicare cuts! Melissa, Last week, we achieved a major victory when White House sources announced that the Chained CPI—a Social Security cut that would get worse over time—would not be in the president's upcoming budget. This is huge. This cut has been at the center of all of the "Grand Bargain" talk over the last few years—President Obama even included it in his budget last year. The bad news is, while the administration indicated that Social Security was safe, there's still bad news for Medicare in the budget. Amid the cheering over Social Security, many overlooked an insidious cut to our earned benefits—a practice called "means testing" for Medicare, which would force middle class Seniors to pay more for a program they've already spent their whole lives paying into. Out of pocket health care costs already consume more than a third of the average Social Security check. If that amount increases, that's just as bad as the Social Security cuts we've been fighting. Tell President Obama and Congress that a cut to Medicare is a cut to Social Security—and we won't stand for either. The fact that the president has now taken Social Security cuts out of his budget is a testament to the incredible work we have all done together. All of the petitions signed and delivered and all of the phone calls made have led directly to this. So thank you. You deserve a hand for this victory. Thanks to you, the conversation in Washington is about how to expand our Social Security system instead of cutting it. Social Security Works members have been on the front lines in protecting our earned benefits. Whether it is defeating the Chained CPI, or protecting Medicare, you continue to make a difference in the lives of millions of Americans. But we can't afford to rest. Wall Street billionaires will continue to apply pressure to our elected officials to cut earned benefits. And we have to make sure that the president and Congress are on our side. We must use the momentum from this victory to ensure that Medicare "means testing" doesn't undermine the future of our earned benefits. Tell Congress and the president – a cut to Medicare is a cut to Social Security! The news this week has been unbelievable. Thank you for getting us this far. It wouldn't be possible without you. Michael Phelan Social Security Works
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SOCIAL SECURITY NOW CALLED 'FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENT'/ENTITLEMENT!

Have you noticed, your Social Security check is now referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment"?

I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.  

I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you.

Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.

The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a Federal Benefit Payment.
This isn't a benefit its earned income!
Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too.

It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.

If you calculate the future value of your  monthly investment in social security ($375/month,  including both
Your and your employers contributions)  at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after  40 years of
Working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal  investment.

Upon retirement, if  you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318  per year, or $3,277 per month.

That's almost  three times more than today's average  Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according  to the
Social Security Administration (Google it - its a fact).

And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)!
I can only imagine how much better most  average-income people could live in retirement if our  government had
Just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever did.
They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot that it was OUR  money they were taking.
They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them.

And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed.
And recently, they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.
But is it our fault they misused our investments?

And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a benefit, as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Lets take a stand.

We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare.
Demand that our legislators bring some  sense into our government

Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going, for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it.

Then call it what it is:
Our Earned Retirement Income.

99% of people won't forward this.
Will you?

Social Security Cuts

Most of these people, have very limited income and didn't get a cost of living increase, at all this year anyway.

Most of the people on SS dont have the benefit of but around $750.00 per month, then medicare, has a

 monthly premium, that can be more than $100.00 per month of that amount, then the part B medicare, has its own premium, and has  co-pays for the medications. co-pays for the Doctors, and co-pays for the hospitals,  and services. When the Doctors prescribe medications, they don't even know the cost and the patient is considered un- cooperative, if they cant afford the medicine's, or the bills that ensue, and the patients are threatened and harassed for the money that should sustain them for the month.  

My husband has this amount of money and is disabled due to a medication mix-up at a drug store from previous years...and this was not his fault,  he farmed and had the 2nd largest farm operation in Scott County Indiana in 1985.

 Thanks to fraudulent activities from people in and around our community and all the way up to the Nations Capital. The inactivity of the Senators and Congress People from Indiana and the ones at Washington, is non-the less fraud or allowing fraud to continue is a breech of their duty.

Wake up Americans, see what is happening all around you, don't let this happen to the elderly and the disabled . 

To the newly elected officials, ask yourself, who elected me? Do I know what the Constitution really says?
Can I take the oath to defend the Constitutional Freedoms that each person is guaranteed, if I take an oath
that puts me under the Crown's authority? Why did I run for office, was it to make a difference? Can you make a difference if you don't know what you are doing, and who will be your boss, the people who voted for you,and  gave you an opportunity to serve. Don't be fooled by the powers that be. If they try to sabotage you, stand up and tell what is happening to you, name, the names of the people who will try to sway your vote.
                                                                        by: Melissa Seaver, Scottsburg, Indiana
                                                                         http://landrightsnfarming.blogspot.com/