I just got a bogus e-mail forwarded to me from a liberal friend.  It claims that our US representatives aren't interested in "fixing" social security because they themselves enjoy much a lavish retirement plan paid for <gasp> by your tax dollars!  My first reaction is that it was total bullshit.  I assumed that if it were true, I certainly would have heard about it.

Okay, okay ... we all get tons of bullshit spam, what's the problem?  Well, in my view, the legion of daily visitors to this site have an obligation to stop this urban myth in its tracks - before it becomes entrenched like the "NYC sewer alligator" myth most people still believe.

It only took 0.24 seconds for Google to provide me with a link debunking this myth [ http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcongress.htm ], but it was 0.24 seconds more than my friend (and who knows how many before him on the e-mail string) took to check into this outrageous claim.

So here's my recommendation, should you get this spam, don't forward it along, but please hit reply-all and politely inform everyone that the claim is rubbish.