Emma Berry

Folks, by and large, a millionaire is a millionaire and it does not matter what party or what faction of a party they belong to. They vote to protect their own personal vested interests in Wall Street and you can count on them to do that. If you are still a fool who votes by straight party then you are either still asleep, or you are a millionaire who belongs to the same club.

Do you think that any of these three men will ever have to worry about making ends meet with an income of about $1,000 a month?  Hell no.  Yet all three of them have no hesitation about cutting such a meager benefit for millions of other Americans.  Do  you believe it?  These rich thugs think that $1,000 a month is too much for old people.

A new study released by the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) examines the pocketbook realities facing retirees, now and in the future.  The NASI study clearly demonstrates that today’s Social Security benefits are modest yet essential in providing an adequate retirement income for millions of American seniors. The average Social Security benefit is only about $1,000 a month. It replaces just about one third of workers’ average earnings, and once the retirement age increases to 67, that replacement rate will shrink further. This leaves little room for the significant benefit cuts proposed by some policymakers.

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All three of these men have an income that is guaranteed by the taxpayers and health care that is subsidized by us as well. John Boehner gets almost a quarter of a million dollars a year from us in salary alone; Justin Amash gets $174,000 a year in salary along from us; and President Obama gets The a $400,000 annual salary, along with a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 non-taxable travel account and $19,000 for entertainment.

In 2006, the average annual pension for retired senators and representatives under CSRS was $60,972–considerably more that what the rest of us get for Social Security. Presidential retirement benefits were non-existent until the enactment of the Former Presidents Act (FPA) in 1958. Since then, presidential retirement benefits have included a lifetime annual pension, staff and office allowances, travel expenses, Secret Service protection and more.

Former presidents are offered a taxable lifetime pension equal to the annual rate of basic pay for the heads of executive branch departments, like the Cabinet Secretaries. This amount is set annually by Congress and is currently (in 2009) $193,400 per year. The pension starts the minute the president officially leaves office at noon on Inauguration Day.

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THIS IS WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE WHEN THEIR MASKS SLIP,

OR WHEN THEY STAND BEHIND THE CURTAIN TO CRANK OUT PROPAGANDA.