{"id":292972,"date":"2017-02-02T20:52:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uncle-sam-wants-your-social-security-check\/"},"modified":"2017-02-02T20:52:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:52:07","slug":"uncle-sam-wants-your-social-security-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uncle-sam-wants-your-social-security-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Sam Wants\u2026 Your Social Security Check"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uncle Sam wants you!<\/p>\n

Not the Uncle Sam who\u2019s the symbolic caricature of our country, but Sam Johnson. Although he\u2019s been a member of Congress for more than a quarter of a century, you’ve probably never heard of him.<\/p>\n

Johnson’s been what\u2019s known in legislative circles as “furniture.” That\u2019s a lawmaker who holds a congressional seat, but just sits in it, achieving so little that he\u2019s unnoticeable.<\/p>\n

But \u2014 look out! \u2014 Johnson has suddenly leapt into action. And we all need to take notice, because this Texas Republican has unveiled what he calls his “Plan to Permanently Save Social Security<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

To get you to support the plan, Uncle Sam wants you to believe that our nation\u2019s very popular retirement program is “going bankrupt.” He knows that\u2019s a lie, but he hopes it\u2019s a big enough lie to panic you into doing anything to save the program.<\/p>\n

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401(K) 2013\/Flickr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

To make his plan easy to swallow, he coats it with another lie, claiming that he\u2019s merely “modernizing” and “updating” Social Security, which a big majority of Americans count on to avoid stark poverty in their golden years.<\/p>\n

But in fact, old Uncle Sam is conniving to “save” Social Security by gutting it.<\/p>\n

The press release announcing his “Reform Act” doesn\u2019t even mention the key fact that it\u2019s based on making workers keep paying the same 12.4 percent tax on their wages, but getting drastically less paid back to them when they retire.<\/p>\n

How much less? Up to 69 percent less<\/a>, cutting a total cut of $11.6 trillion in benefits promised to America\u2019s workers.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Rep. Johnson has announced his own retirement after 28 years\u00a0sitting in Congress. And yes, he can draw a Social Security check, but he also gets a congressional pension that will pay him more than $70,000 a year.<\/p>\n

How about we cut that perk and leave the people\u2019s Social Security alone?<\/p>\n

The post Uncle Sam Wants\u2026 Your Social Security Check<\/a> appeared first on OtherWords<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This piece was reprinted from Other Words<\/a> by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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