Neighbor Fencepost.(Neighbor)(Letter to the editor)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November, 2006

Stop the raid of Social Security funds This is a non-partisan message for young, old and in-between. Do you know that some of our elected congressmen are stealing from our Social Security trust fund. The Social Security trust was designed to meet the demands of today's and tomorrow's retiring Americans.

As a worker in today's work force, your employer, by law, must deduct a prescribed percentage of your wages as payroll taxes to go into the Social Security Trust Fund. So far those politicians have spent $1.9 trillion of our Social Security trust fund money. To overcome this, an act was introduced by Congressman Ron Paul, R-Texas, H.R. 219, that would stop the squandering of our Social Security trust funds. Beside the $1.9 trillion they have taken,...