SENIORS DEMAND "THEIR MONEY" NOW

PETITION TO US CONGRESS FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY FUNDS

Many if not most seniors don't know that the Federal Government "borrowed" our money that we invested in our Social Security accounts for our retirement. They never paid it back. The term for this is theft by deception. Either you are receiving SS or someone close to you is.
Some day you will be drawing from this savings you've investing in.
I understand where seniors are coming from. I'm one of them.
I hope everyone who reads this will inform everyone they know about this petition but I don't believe sharing this is anywhere near enough. I want to unite seniors and everyone (which is everyone) who will benefit from this petition to replace every cent that has been borrowed (stolen) from SS funds, back pay for every recipient, and increase payments for those receiving benefits (their savings payments) to the level where they should be.
Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. Use your blogs, groups, and social media to let everyone know about the petition.

The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.
If you calculate the future value of your monthly invest-ment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved!
This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.
That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact).
And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger *Ponzi scheme* than Bernie Madoff ever did.
They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. (Isn't it funny that they NEVER say this about welfare payments?)

But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a *benefit*, as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.

Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it.

Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
By the signatures affixed, "We the People" demand immediate action to correct the injustice, hardship, and indignity inflicted on Social Security recipients past, present, and future. We demand rebursement of past payments based on a scale after rembursing the Social Security fund all of our "borrowed" money with interest. We demand an increase on present payments using the same formula. We demand funds to be protected for future recipients.
We demand that the COLA formula no longer be used for cost of living adjustment and a more accurate formula be used.
We will not accept the excuse that no money is available. Many billions of dollars have been spent for foreign interests. It is well past time our government representatives spent some money on US citizens. The president and congress created the deficit, not the seniors. Presidents and congress "borrowed" "our money" "without our consent" to use for other reasons and never paid it back. WE DEMAND OUR MONEY NOW! If you're not for the citizens, then resign. You were voted into office by the citizens for the citizens.
Signed: