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?I touch the world with hands too weak, frail as the words that I speak. I hear the sounds, dragging with pain?Nothing to gain, nothing to lose, why should I bother to choose? Mind cannot know, lips shake to spare, but when I sing with my heart you are there..?.-Alan Keyes in a self-written song, ?You Are There?

Assignment Desk: Get me this tape

He went on the Tonight Show and sang. While Bill Clinton played the sax in 1992, and John Kerry played the guitar this campaign season, those were merely cases of showing off. When Keyes went on the Tonight Show, he sang a song he wrote, expressing his own heart about issues of justice and truth. Few political leaders would make themselves so vulnerable in that venue.

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  1. THE 2 AMERICA’S
    I am sending this to you & my congressmen with a personal message that I want them to join Social Security instead of their special perks!!!!

    IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT! m( I am a reg: Democrat)
    This is going to become an 2004 Election Issue!! this was picked off the web today…

    GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC. SEC.
    This must be an issue in “2004.” Please! Keep it going.

    SOCIAL SECURITY:

    (This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.)
    Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years!
    Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it.

    You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society.They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan.

    In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan.
    For all practical purposes their plan works like this:
    When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die.
    Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments..

    For example, former Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives
    may expect to draw $7,800,000.00 (that’s Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand
    Dollars), with their wives drawing $275,000.00 during the last years of their lives.

    This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries. Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more
    during the rest of their lives.
    Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00. NADA….ZILCH….

    This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly
    from the General Funds;

    “OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK”!

    From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into,-every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our
    employer)-we can expect to get an average of $1,000 per month after
    retirement.

    Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000
    monthly benefits for 68 years and one (1) month to equal Senator! Bill Bradley’s benefits!
    Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made.

    That change would be to:
    Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and
    Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us
    then sit back….. and watch how fast they would fix it.

    If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be
    planted and maybe good changes will evolve.

    DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS AND SHOW US YOU ARE FOR THE PEOPLE, not just another money grubbing politician!!

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