18 SEP 2012 TU Medicare and Social Security are paid for by U.S. Citizens who contribute and who pay into the social serving programs. Employers and companies also pay into the program. This is considered a job benefit, and part of the emoyees salary. Union retirement plans, and health plans are all considered supplemental parts to the social serving programs. Much of these are considered savings because the insurance companies and the life insurance companies that contribute in some way to the programs force the members to save for a rainy day. The way the plan works is that the rainy days do not all occur at the same time and in the same place. So when you pay into your insurance policy, the money comes out of your pocket the same as when you pay into your Social Security policy. Social Security is insurance and is important to all's well beings. It is money saved by the people for a big rainy day. It is not government tax money, per say. The government collects, keeps and manages the savings, and possibly invests some of the money. It is about 7 % of GDP annually. GDP is about $25 trillion dollars per year.So Social Security gets about $3.5 trillion dollars each year, total, and over a decade gets ten times that amount, or $35 trillion dollars. However, natural disasters, fires, wind storms, uses funds. No one knows where the money comes from. But, insurance companies encourage members to pay extra to be covered for these so-called acts of God. After the Northridge earthquake, most people added earthquake as well as windstorm insurance, to help prevent draining government disaster funds. Research: 'disaster underwriters' 17 SEP 2012 MON HOUSING If everyone chips In : we can do it depending on our selected pace.determined by how much money we chip in at a given time: We can chip in ten cents, or one dollar, etc. Today we use the money standard and chip in money instead of labor. 1. 10¢/person per day, times 300,000,000 persons (per United States) = $3,000,000.00/day. 2. $3,000,000.00/day ÷ $3,00,000.00/house will build, or purchase, 10 houses per day, or 3,650 houses/ year, or 36,500 houses per decade....... Now think about this and try to decide whether we still truly love our neighbor, as our forefathers intended for us to do, and as our forefathers did... But 'Habitat For Humanity' uses your 'labor,' like in the beginning-- ALL DURING THE 14, 15, 16, 17, & 18th centuries of the settling of the U.S. , the building of housing was a community effort. Neighbors came over and -- a. Cleared the land b. Cut the trees into lumber c. Dug the well d. Built the house e. Gave it to the new owner f. Moved him in