The Westmount Group

02/13/2026

01/25/2026

Always a pleasure to work with talented and skilled people.

11/08/2025

Posting because I agree!
Social Security is NOT a Federal Benefit Payment and I do not like this renaming term myself. My contributions were made for over 50 years on every salary I received. Been working since I was a teenager, not always glamorous, BUT I always had a job.

The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.

The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.

If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved!

This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.

That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact).

And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.

But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.

Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!

Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.

Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it.

Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.

99% of people won't cut and paste this to their timelines. Will you?

10/24/2025

Musicians do their scales, cabinet makers do quick furniture. Legs are designed by made with from The top is ash from when they built the new Springside ave building.

10/02/2025

Don’t get excited Pink Floyd will not be playing in the shop anytime soon. This wall is being made by our very own Jim Van

09/18/2025

Its easy to forget how much dust a handheld router can kick up. Sometimes the cnc just can’t do the job.

08/23/2025

Wrapping up another great week! Fortunate that my boss does not care about wild hair dayz.

08/08/2025

We are looking to add to our team! We have an opening for an experienced cabinet maker. Please send your resume to us through our website contact link.

07/01/2025

Checking on the status of this kitchen. We have a few drawer inserts and fronts to put on later this weeks and we will call this one done! A great collaboration with our client and contractor! .e Under the cardboard is a solid cherry top. For the main countertop the client has selected soapstone.

05/27/2025

Today we installed a wind phone. Our former office manager has worked diligently with the and others to get this in place.

05/07/2025

Only some folks will understand why we are excited to have this new forklift… looking forward to unloading our next delivery for

05/04/2025

I am so grateful to have a team that is able to pull together and make things happen. The back bar at the Golf Course is nearing completion! Next comes the mirrors and drink shelves. 💪