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Opinion What’s Your Advice? Be part of the Connection Insiders edition. The Connection staff and interns are already preparing the annual newcomers and community guide. We invite our readers to help with providing insiders’ advice and information. Below are several suggested questions, but we encourage you to participate in any way. We’ll print selections from the answers along with your name. Answer one question or all of them; give as many answers as you’d like to each question. What “insider’s tip” about your town would you share with a friend? Places to go, things to do, can’t-miss events, ideas on what it means to live here. What advice would you give new residents on how to make themselves at home and get involved here? What tips do you have for someone new to your town? What interesting, almost secret, places would you like to have learned about earlier when you moved in? We invite you to share the expertise you’ve gained in living in your hometown with your neighbors and with people new to the area. Send us a short letter: what do you love Entitlement? By Jack Kenny- Past President, Republican Club of Greater Reston Let’s start off with a few statistics. In the confines of Reston there are a little over 57,000 registered voters. Currently, about 10,780 are aged 62 or older and presumably receiving Social Security benefits. That’s close to 19 percent of the registered voters. In five years, when the bulk of the so-called Baby Boomers are eligible for Social Security benefits the percentage jumps to over 24 percent. We may assume, in five years the population of Reston will increase by perhaps 20,000. However, the current percentages are expected to stay about the same. Virtually all of Reston’s over-62 population has worked their adult lives and paid into the FICA (Social Security Trust Fund) for some 40+ years. A substantial number are still working and contributing to the Trust Fund. Of course, their benefits increase each year they work. If our rate of purchase was about 4 percent over the 40 years, with the matching employer’s contribution, our annuity would be A Differing Point of View Editorials about your community? Tell us about one special place you’ve discovered. Does you family have different favorites in different seasons? How did you get involved in your town? Share your favorite park. Tell us about your favorite annual event. Send us a photo of your family at one of your favorite spots or engaged in a favorite activity. We also ask for input from local arts organizations, civic organizations, houses of worship, clubs, schools, businesses and other community institutions. Send us information on dates and details for major events for the upcoming year, information on how to get involved in Digital Editions, Twitter Be the first to read your hometown news. Sign up to get the digital replica of the Connection delivered to your email box every week. Anyone can sign up to receive one or more editions of the Connection (McLean, Great Falls, Vienna/Oakton, Reston, Oak Hill/ Herndon, Arlington, Springfield, Burke, Fairfax, Fairfax Station/Clifton/Lorton) including the Alexandria Gazette Packet, the Mount Vernon Gazette, the Centre View and the Potomac Almanac. Email your name, your snail-mail address, worth over $850,000: a tidy sum that would provide each beneficiary with about $20,000 a year for the next 30 years. In reality, the individual and employer contribution is more like $1.25 million dollars. A private purchased annuity return would be substantially greater given inflation and the ups and downs of the economy. As I have written in previous columns, Social Security started out as a voluntary program. Through the years it became a mandatory program. Then LBJ came along and picked the lock box hijacking the huge pot of trust funds for the War on Poverty. By the way, poverty has won that war. Now the politicians have muddied the waters by changing the approach using the word entitlements. Somehow, we are supposed to think of our forced annuity as being a gift from the government. In fact, it is our money: extracted from our paychecks and from our employers. The principle upon which this program was founded is the same basis for which we sent Bernie Madoff to jail. Through the years, the politicians have used this annuity to spend it on social programs: expanding the beneficiary pool without concurrent contributions. It has gotten so far out of whack, we are now facing the prospect of receiving only $.78 on each dollar we invested. Would anyone in their right mind buy an annuity from a financial institution, insurance company or whatever with the prospect that the financial institution would keep 22 percent of the purchased annuity to distribute to others as administrative expenses? That is what is happening now. While the forthcoming election is for state and local offices, send a message to the politicians: It is not an entitlement but a financial contract. Vote Nov 8. nonprofits and charities, details about your club or other organization. The Insiders Guide will publish the last week in August. Please send in your tips and answers by Aug. 17. For Alexandria Gazette, Mount Vernon Gazette, Arlington Connection, Centre View or Potomac Almanac, send to smauren@connectionnewspapers.com For Vienna/Oakton, McLean, Great Falls, Reston, Oak Hill/Herndon Connections, send to kemal@connectionnewspapers.com For Springfield, Burke, Fairfax, Fairfax Station/Clifton/Lorton Connections, send to moconnell@connectionnewspapers.com email address and the paper or papers you would like to receive to GoingGreen@connectionnewspapers.com. (We will not sell or share your personal information.) We will email a digital replica of the print edition directly to your email box every week. Looking for something a bit more immediate? Follow us on Facebook or Twitter. On Twitter: @ffxconnection, @marykimm, @Michaelleepope,@followfairfax, @connectvictoria, @AmcVeighConnect, @jonroetman Letters to the Editor Time to Discuss Future Is Now To the Editor: When I pick my granddaughter up at Terraset after school, there are many grandparents waiting for kids. That’s a big change from the early 1980s when my daughter was a student at Sunrise Valley. She tells me nobody she knew at her school had grandparents living in Reston. We have become a settled community with deep roots over the years since Reston was first created. Our founder, Bob Simon, has said recently that density equals community. He is very eager for the changes that will bring additional people and development to Reston. Right now Town Center and Dulles Corridor are being considered by the Reston Master Plan Special Study Task Force for additional development. But soon the county will turn its attention to the part of Reston called the PRC, the Planned Residential Community. Then our neighborhoods and the shopping centers will be considered for additional density in Phase 2. The time to discuss this Phase 2 of the Task Force is now. Our See Kaplan, Page 11 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Newspaper of Reston An independent, locally owned weekly newspaper delivered to homes and businesses. 1606 King Street Alexandria, Virginia 22314 NEWS DEPARTMENT: To discuss ideas and concerns, Call: 703-778-9410 e-mail: reston@connectionnewspapers.com Kemal Kurspahic Editor ❖ 703-778-9414 kemal@connectionnewspapers.com Alex McVeigh Community Reporter 703-778-9441 amcveigh@connectionnewspapers.com Nick Horrock County & Projects nhorrock@connectionnewspapers.com Rich Sanders Sports Editor 703-224-3031 rsanders@connectionnewspapers.com ADVERTISING: To place an advertisement, call the ad department between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday - Friday. 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News Reston Lions Install New Officers www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Photo by Gerry Washburn Second Vice District Governor Lion Mike Ryan of Sterling installed new officers in the Reston Lions Club at their installation dinner held at the Mamma Lucia Restaurant in Reston on June 15. From left: Lynn Healey, Membership Chair; Jim Ryan, Tail Twister; Andy Goodman, Secretary; Sue Beffel, 1st Vice President; Don Leas, 2nd Vice President; Jack Gazlay, Treasurer; Mike Ryan; Bob Meisner, Lion Tamer; Mike Moseley, Past President and Steve Reber, President. For more information about the Reston Lions Club, visit www.restonlions.org and their Facebook page. Patrice M. La Liberte, 89, Dies Patrice M. La Liberte, 89, a Reston resident since 1968, died on July 2. Survivors include two brothers: John La Liberte of Madison Heights, Mich.; Paul La Liberte of Lady Lake, Fla.; and numerous nieces and nephews. Miss La Liberte was the daughter of Josephine Nadeau and Joseph La Liberte, both deceased, of Royal Oak, Mich., where she grew up. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m.. on Thursday, Aug. 18 at St. Thomas a Becket Catholic Church, 1421 Wiehle Ave., Reston. Patrice M. La Liberte Follow us on Mary Kimm, Publisher @marykimm Michael O’Connell, Managing Editor @ffxconnection Julia O’Donoghue, Reporter @Followfairfax Michael Lee Pope, Reporter @MichaelLeePope Alex McVeigh, Reporter @AMcVeighConnect Jon Roetman, Sports Reporter @jonroetman Pediatric & General Dentistry Time to schedule your child’s cleaning during Summer Vacation! LASER procedure for fillings. Many pediatric patients can be treated without novocaine! •Bleaching •Special Needs Patients •Nitrous Oxide •Cosmetic Restorations •Wi-Fi Available •IV Sedation Available Heidi Herbst, DDS Howard Mitnick, DDS Nooshin Monajemy, DDS Sterling, VA 703-444-3710 www.sterlingvasmiles.com Gentle Touch Dental Care For Over 20 Years! Est. 1963 The One Source for Super Value for all Your Flooring Needs: • Oriental Rugs • Wall-to-Wall Carpet • Hardwood Flooring • Laminate Flooring • Ceramic Tile • Sand & Finish Oriental Rugs REPAIR & RESTORATION • Weavers on staff CLEANING • All cleaning done on-premises in our cleaning plant 20% OFF Expires 8/3/11 • Wall-to-Wall Carpet in your home, office or high-rise Wall-to-Wall Carpet Big Sale On Karastan Shaw Mohawk Hardwood Flooring Sale On All Hardwoods 681 Spring Street, Herndon Mon, Tues, Thur & Fri: 9-6 Wed: 9-5 Sat: 9-3 703-471-7120 Our Installers are certified, trained professionals Reston Connection ❖ July 27- August 2, 2011 ❖ 7
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