The Radical Reconfiguration of Southern European Politics
Over the past decade fundamental changes have taken place in Southern Europe, which have broken with previous political alignments, resulting in the virtual disappearance of traditional leftist...
View ArticleThe Fight against Universal Health Care in U.S. is Rooted in that Peculiar...
On the Monday in January 2015 marked in the U.S. by many to commemorate the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the organization called Healthcare-Now in the U.S. emailed its subscribers a...
View ArticleSocial Security Surplus Is Not Invested
The Social Security payroll tax hike of 1983 generated $2.7 trillion in surplus revenue. The surplus was supposed to be saved and invested in marketable U.S. Treasury bonds, which could later be resold...
View ArticleWhy Can’t the Public Know the Truth about Social Security?
During the past three decades the American people have been kept in the dark about the true status of the Social Security program. Politicians, from both political parties, give out false and...
View ArticleBlindsiding the Public on Social Security
There is more confusion about Social Security today than ever before. We are hearing contradictory claims from individuals, organizations, and government, and nobody knows who to believe. There is no...
View ArticleThe Broken Social Contract
The unwritten but very real and clearly understood social contract under which the citizens and workers of the United States and Canada developed the countries has now been broken by the wealthy...
View ArticleSocial Security Surplus is Not Invested in Government Bonds
The surplus Social Security revenue, generated by the 1983 payroll tax hike, was supposed to be saved and invested in marketable U.S. Treasury bonds. If that had been done, the trust fund would today...
View ArticleSupreme Court Has Ruled: Nobody Has an Earned Right to Social Security Benefits
Most Americans have probably never heard of the 1960 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Flemming v. Nestor. It is one of several important facts about Social Security that are unknown to the public. The...
View ArticleThere is Never a 12th Step in the Program Called Consumerism
Sixty days. A year. Five years. A week. A day. An hour. Right now. That’s the curse of addiction, those needles, inhalants, the entire barbarity of cheap booze shilled by the chosen ones, the money...
View ArticleLet the Public Know The Truth About Social Security
During the past three decades, the American people have been kept in the dark about the true status of the Social Security program. Politicians from both political parties give out false and...
View ArticleProtests Will Start When the Checks Stop
My article, “Let the Public Know the Truth About Social Security,” Dissident Voice, September 26, 2016, raised doubts in the minds of some readers. One reader wrote: “Unlike protests such as Occupy...
View ArticleWhy Does The Government Continue to Lie About Social Security?
Most Americans must be getting accustomed to hearing lie after lie from the two presidential candidates. According to fact checkers, Clinton lies on average 28 percent of the time and Trump lies 80...
View ArticleSocial Security Ain’t Broke
There is a high probability that Social Security benefits will be cut in 2017 or 2018, because there will not be enough Social Security money to pay full benefits. The payroll tax hike of 1983...
View ArticleThe Disorder of Threat
In March 1982, conservative theoreticians James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling published a brief article in The Atlantic entitled “Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety” that was to...
View ArticleBoomer MRDs Could Bolster Safety Net
You know the safety net is in danger when lawmakers fire away and claim they’re trying to save it. On the first day of the new Congress, the House warned that Social Security benefits might need...
View ArticlePrivatizing Public Services
The basic conservative movement has never altered its views. It has always been based on the domination of society by an aristocracy, but its approach has varied to suit the times. Since the ascendency...
View ArticleThe Public Sector Is a Milk Cow for Private Enterprise
Social Security and Medicare are under attack from Wall Street, conservatives, and free market economists. The claims are that these programs are unaffordable and that the programs can be run more...
View ArticleGreenspan Finally Tells the Awful Truth about Social Security
During a presentation to the Peter J. Peterson Foundation’s, Fiscal, 2015, Summit last month, former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, was asked about the status of the Social Security Trust...
View ArticleThe Radical Reconfiguration of Southern European Politics
Over the past decade fundamental changes have taken place in Southern Europe, which have broken with previous political alignments, resulting in the virtual disappearance of traditional leftist...
View ArticleThe Fight against Universal Health Care in U.S. is Rooted in that Peculiar...
On the Monday in January 2015 marked in the U.S. by many to commemorate the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the organization called Healthcare-Now in the U.S. emailed its subscribers a...
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