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Down Memory Lane...1933 to 1945

09/21/2009 10:52 am PST

If there is anyone out there that doesn't know this, this is the best visual presentation
I ever saw.... Now don't be mad at old people, just remember who did this.......

Franklin Delano. Roosevelt
32nd. President
, Democrat
Terms of Office March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945
Our Social Security
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Terms of Office March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945), aDemocrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program.. He Promised:

1.)
That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary,
2.)
That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program,
3.)
That the money the participants elected to put Into the Program would be deductible from Their income for tax purposes each year,
4.)
That the money the participants put into the Independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the General operating fund, and therefore, would Only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and
5.)
That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are getting taxedon 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to 'Put Away' -- you may be interested in what follows:

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