Social 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 ArticleSocial Security: The 14th Amendment and “Odious Debt”
The Republican Party prepares to violate the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution: Social Security — the 14th amendment and “odious debt”. For decades the working people have been paying millions...
View ArticleMagic Money Working Magic on 401(k)s
A top policy expert isn’t buying reports of a private-sector retirement “crisis.” In an article, Andrew Biggs not only rejected the gloom but offered a striking counter-narrative. He cited figures...
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Politicians are using the Nazi “Big Lie” to cheat American Workers out of...
For decades billionaire Foundations and conservative politicians have been spreading the big lie that Social Security is broke. Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels wrote: “When...
View ArticleThe Exsanguination of Medical Ethics
For thousands of years physicians took oaths to always act in the patient’s best interest when providing care. At the heart of medical ethics, this moral code was passed down through the centuries and...
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When Armistice Day and Remembrance Day Turned into War Day
Cognitive dissonance in Psychology The psychological tension that occurs when one holds mutually exclusive beliefs or attitudes and that often motivates people to modify their thoughts or behaviors in...
View ArticleTrump’s Sadist-in-Chief
Mr. Mick Mulvaney’s title seems uninterestingly bureaucratic—director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). But as Trump’s chief hatchet man extraordinaire, Mugger Mick Mulvaney is easily one...
View ArticleThe History of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill
At a time when the American population is radicalizing, when popular movements are coalescing around “radical” demands—Medicare for All, the abolition of ICE, tuition-free college, in general the...
View ArticleDespite Caving on Superdelegate Votes, Democratic Leaders Stick With Old Wine...
The challenge by progressives to Democratic party leaders for November’s midterms—and the 2020 presidential election—is to tone down the anti-Trump focus and play up domestic planks as did the Great...
View ArticleHousing Crisis, Mental Health Collective Breakdown, 9 am to 5 am Work!
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ― D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature He who does not travel, who does not read, who does...
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