INTEGRITY!!!!!!

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President George W Bush

In last night's State of the Union Address, George W Bush was strong, bold, and impressive. His speech covered many issues that are vital to the future of our nation. Today we are going to cover one of the hottest issues on the table, Social Security.

I have to be honest. Listening to the rhetoric on both sides of the aisle had me a little confused. Sometimes the banter can just leave one not knowing WHAT to believe. Thank God for the information age; I decided to do some homework on this issue, and was appalled by what I found.

Listening to one side tell us how imperative changes to the Social Security program are, and the other side tell us this is not a huge concern leaves one to ask, "Who's telling the truth." What I learned has me convinced that trusting Democrats on this issue would be one of the worst things we could ever do to our children.

The history of Social Security is absolutely disgraceful. What our elected officials have done to the original intent of The New Deal, by President F D Roosevelt, has been butchered and abused beyond belief. I found this page on the intranet, and decided to take the challenge:

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, 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.
• 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 taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal Government to "put away," you may be
interested in the following:

• Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent "Trust"
  fund and put it into the General fund so that Congress could spend it?
• A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the Democratically-controlled House and
  Senate.
• Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social
  Security (FICA) withholding?
• A: The Democratic Party.
• Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
• A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the "tie-breaking" deciding
  vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the U.S.
• Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to
  immigrants?
• A: That's right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.

Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive SSI Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and violation of the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

I don't want the Democratic Party getting their grubby, greedy little paws anywhere NEAR control over money. The history here shows them to be incompetent and irresponsible with OUR money. I had no idea what I was going to find when I started on my journey of research, but below are a few links.

The first two links should be very helpful to ANYONE who would like to try and disprove the above assertions . I will warn you, I looked, I tried(for HOURS) and became even more and more disgusted as I labored over it.

• History of the Social Security Program
• Social Security Reform History (brief outline that will be helpful in researching the content of the above link)
• American Patriots
• Men's News Daily
• Washington Times Op-Ed (Fantastic piece that exposes the gall of partisan politics)
• CNN (YES!-- CNN)

I am thoroughly convinced~~~~~~

THIS IS WHAT WE NEED:

Integrity................