Re: Social Security System

["Douglas Whitney" <dwhitney@moscow.com>]

Since part of the 50% falsity is that many of them actually receive MORE of
our money than stated in Henson's post, their theivery is still a clear
outrage, no matter how hypertechnical you get with the definitions, as does
the snopes website.

Doug Whitney
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Hoffmann" <escape@alt-escape.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: Social Security System


> At 09:32 PM 10/15/2000 -0700, kay henson wrote:
> >Our Senators and Congressmen don't pay in to Social
> >Security, and, of course, they don't collect from it.
>
> A few days ago, I received an email from a conservative relative talking
> about how Hillary Clinton defended some Black Panthers who killed a fellow
> Black Panther.  I suspected this of being an urban legend, and found a
site
> on the Internet that confirmed that the story was about 90% false.
>
> The same site, http://www.snopes.com, discusses the Social Security
> story.  I'd say the story is 50% false, as described on
> http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/pensions.htm.
>
> Remember, if the email says "Pass this along, so as many people as
possible
> can read this," then it's probably hooey.
>
>
> Bob Hoffmann
> 846 Mabelle St.
> Moscow, ID  83843  USA
> Phone: (208) 883-0642
> Fax: (877) 495-2279
>