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...
View ArticleOur Counterfeit Social Security Crisis
The humorist Mark Twain once called reports of his death “an exaggeration.” The same goes for the endless fearmongering and scare stories about America’s most popular government program, Social...
View ArticleA Wall Street Boost for Social Security
The aging of America is putting the squeeze on Social Security. About 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day and the number is heading even higher. Ready or not, our retirement system faces its first...
View ArticleEven the Democrats Do Favors for the Rich
In 2017 a Republican-controlled Congress passed a tax cut hugely tilted to corporations and the wealthy. In the waning days of 2019, the Democratic-controlled House did a kind of me-too. It pushed...
View ArticleThe 5th Coronavirus Relief Package We Need
The coronavirus depression is fast becoming as deep as the Great Depression. The federal government’s response has been too little, too late. While sickness and death spread, while unemployment and...
View ArticleA Manifesto for the United States of America, Part I
The impunity of U.S. police in killing and brutalizing blacks, native Americans, other minorities and the poor is being tested. It has always been clear to its victims that it demands redress, but...
View ArticleWE Charity Scandal and NGOs’ Role in Imperialism
Once again the media focuses on salacious details rather than the big picture. While TV and newspapers have focused on the whiff of corruption surrounding the government’s $900 million contract with...
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What Can We Learn from Cuba? Medicare-for-All Is a Beginning, Not the End Point
As a coup de grâce to the Bernie Sanders campaign Joe Biden declared that he would veto Medicare-for-All. This could drive a dedicated health care advocate to relentlessly pursue Med-4-All as a final...
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