+ useless hunting dog and his venison friend..

-


"WHO GETS YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY IF YOU ARE DEAD



"THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THIS CALCULATION IS THEY FORGOT TO FIGURE IN
THE PEOPLE WHO DIED BEFORE THEY COLLECTED THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY!!!!
WHERE DID THAT MONEY GO?????????????



"This is another example of what Rick Perry called "TREASON in high places" !!! Get angry and pass this on !



Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your
employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you
averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500.



If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your
employer's contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays
on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working you'd have
$892,919.98.



If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year and
it would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at age
65) and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit!
If you bought an annuity and it paid



4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.



The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madhoff ever had.



Entitlement my ass, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!!
Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't make my benefits some kind
of charity or handout!!



Congressional benefits ---- free healthcare, outrageous retirement
packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid
sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my social
security retirement entitlements?



We're "broke" and can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless



In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile , and Turkey .
And now Pakistan ......home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of
DOLLARS!!!



Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do
they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations
pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign
Countries!



They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most
of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when it's
time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did
the government borrow from it in the first place? Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.



Sad isn't it?"




-


Harry and Bess


"Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as
many, or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any
of the other 42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his
greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.



The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was
in Independence Missouri . His wife had inherited the house from her
mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they
lived their entire lives there.



When he retired from office in 1952 his income was a U.S. Army pension
reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was
paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an
'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.



After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to
Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.



When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined,
stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and
that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's
not for sale."



Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the
Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing,
"I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason
for any award, Congressional or otherwise."



As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.



Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on
the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also
have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of
their offices. Political offices are now for sale (cf. Illinois ).



Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life
were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And
to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!



I say dig him up and clone him!"
-


"Six Boys And Thirteen Hands...



"Each year I am hired to go to Washington , DC , with the eighth grade
class from Clinton , WI where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I
greatly enjoy visiting our nation's capitol, and each year I take some
special memories back with me. This fall's trip was especially
memorable.



On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial. This
memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one of
the most famous photographs in history -- that of the six brave soldiers
raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky hill on the island of
Iwo Jima , Japan , during WW II.



Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and headed
towards the memorial. I noticed a solitary figure at the base of the
statue, and as I got closer he asked, 'Where are you guys from?'



I told him that we were from Wisconsin. 'Hey, I'm a cheese head, too!
Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story.'



(It was James Bradley who just happened to be in Washington, DC, to
speak at the memorial the following day. He was there that night to say
good night to his dad, who had passed away. He was just about to leave
when he saw the buses pull up.



I videotaped him as he spoke to us, and received his permission to share
what he said from my videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible
monuments filled with history in Washington, DC, but it is quite another
to get the kind of insight we received that night.)



When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are his words that night.)



'My name is James Bradley and I'm from Antigo, Wisconsin. My dad is on
that statue, and I just wrote a book called 'Flags of Our Fathers' which
is #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list right now. It is the story
of the six boys you see behind me.



'Six boys raised the flag. The first guy putting the pole in the ground
is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player. He enlisted in
the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team. They
were off to play another type of game. A game called 'War.' But it
didn't turn out to be a game. Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his
intestines in his hands. I don't say that to gross you out, I say that
because there are people who stand in front of this statue and talk
about the glory of war. You guys need to know that most of the boys in
Iwo Jima were 17, 18, and 19 years old - and it was so hard that the
ones who did make it home never even would talk to their families about
it.



(He pointed to the statue) 'You see this next guy? That's Rene Gagnon
from New Hampshire. If you took Rene's helmet off at the moment this
photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would find
a photograph...a photograph of his girlfriend. Rene put that in there
for protection because he was scared. He was 18 years old. It was just
boys who won the battle of Iwo Jima. Boys. Not old men.



'The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike
Strank.. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They called
him the 'old man' because he was so old. He was already 24. When Mike
would motivate his boys in training camp, he didn't say, 'Let's go kill
some Japanese' or 'Let's die for our country.' He knew he was talking to
little boys.. Instead he would say, 'You do what I say, and I'll get
you home to your mothers.'



'The last guy on this side of the statue is Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian
from Arizona ... Ira Hayes was one of them who lived to walk off Iwo
Jima . He went into the White House with my dad. President Truman told
him, 'You're a hero' He told reporters, 'How can I feel like a hero when
250 of my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked off
alive?'



So you take your class at school, 250 of you spending a year together
having fun, doing everything together. Then all 250 of you hit the
beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira
Hayes. He had images of horror in his mind.



Ira Hayes carried the pain home with him and eventually died dead drunk,
face down, drowned in a very shallow puddle, at the age of 32 (ten
years after this picture was taken).



'The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from
Hilltop, Kentucky .. A fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. His best friend, who is
now 70, told me, 'Yeah, you know, we took two cows up on the porch of
the Hilltop General Store. Then we strung wire across the stairs so the
cows couldn't get down. Then we fed them Epsom salts. Those cows crapped
all night.' Yes, he was a fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. Franklin died on
Iwo Jima at the age of 19. When the telegram came to tell his mother

that he was dead, it went to the Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy
ran that telegram up to his mother's farm. The neighbors could hear her
scream all night and into the morning Those neighbors lived a quarter of
a mile away.



'The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad, John
Bradley, from Antigo, Wisconsin, where I was raised. My dad lived until
1994, but he would never give interviews. When Walter Cronkite's
producers or the New York Times would call, we were trained as little
kids to say 'No, I'm sorry, sir, my dad's not here. He is in Canada
fishing. No, there is no phone there, sir. No, we don't know when he is
coming back.' My dad never fished or even went to Canada. Usually, he

was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell's soup. But we
had to tell the press that he was out fishing. He didn't want to talk to
the press.



'You see, like Ira Hayes, my dad didn't see himself as a hero. Everyone
thinks these guys are heroes, 'cause they are in a photo and on a
monument My dad knew better. He was a medic. John Bradley from Wisconsin
was a combat caregiver. On



Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died. And when boys died
on Iwo Jima, they writhed and screamed, without any medication or help
with the pain.



'When I was a little boy, my third grade teacher told me that my dad was
a hero. When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me and
said, 'I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the
guys who did not come back.



Did NOT come back.'



'So that's the story about six nice young boys. Three died on Iwo Jima ,
and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo
Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice
is giving out, so I will end here.



Thank you for your time.'



Suddenly, the monument wasn't just a big old piece of metal with a flag
sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the
heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero.
Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero
nonetheless.



We need to remember that God created this vast and glorious world for us to live in, freely, but also at great sacrifice



Let us never forget from the Revolutionary War to the current War on
Terrorism and all the wars in-between that sacrifice was made for our
freedom...please pray for our troops.



Remember to pray praises for this great country of ours and also
...please pray for our troops still in murderous places around the
world.



STOP and thank God for being alive and being free due to someone else's sacrifice.



God Bless You and God Bless America .



REMINDER: Everyday that you can wake up free, it's going to be a great day.



One thing I learned while on tour with my 8th grade students in DC that
is not mentioned here is . . that if you look at the statue very closely
and count the number of 'hands' raising the flag, there are 13. When
the man who made the statue was asked why there were 13, he simply said
the 13th hand was the hand of God."