Fixing Our Favorite, Federal, Fiduciary Falsehoods
We cannot even begin to address our rising national debt until we stop using false terms, false beliefs and stop ceding power to the Federal government.
Social Security
The Marked: How the Social Security System Rewrote American Identity, Part 3
In the final part of this series, we’ll explore how the SSN metastasized into the backbone of modern identity. We’ll look at how it crept into private industry, how data brokers and governments exploit it, and how the “Mark” has evolved
The Marked: How the Social Security System Rewrote American Identity, Part 2
In this part, we turn to the early years of the SSN itself, the numbers that were forbidden, and the unlikely rebellion that began not with violence, but with a strange, silent act of civil disobedience: using a fake number on purpose.
The Marked: How the Social Security System Rewrote American Identity
Part 1 We Gave Up Our Names for Numbers: The Quiet Birth of the System That Owns You Looking back from the age of digital surveillance and algorithmic oversight, perhaps the greatest act of control wasn’t when the government began reading our emails—but when it gave each of us a number and took away our …
Brenton Smith: Social Security Needs Serious Debate
At this point, the experts at the Social Security Administration believe that about half of those who are now 80 will outlive the system’s ability to pay scheduled benefits.
Brenton Smith: Improper Payments Plague Social Security. Here Is a Simple Solution
Congress is demanding solutions from the Social Security Administration, which is considering alternatives that would cost future retirees billions of dollars by accelerating insolvency.
Social Security has a Surplus; It is not a government handout. It is an earned pension benefit
Leading into the November election, Biden and his cheerleaders in the media are pretending Donald Trump is going to cut your Social Security.
Brenton Smith: Social Security is the Chinese Food of Politics
It is in effect the Chinese food of politics. You can spend as much time as you like consuming it, and you are just as hungry as when you started.
Nikki foolishly attacks Social Security
Nikki foolishly attacks Social Security; Social Security has a surplus. The rest of government owes $33 trillion
Brenton Smith On Social Security; Myths vs Realities
The discussion of Social Security reform is the modern day manifestation of the Tower of Babel, where everyone has a fact that is someone else’s myth largely because each language comes with its own set of facts.
America’s Third Rail Of Politics; Social Security
The Silent Generation and Boomers have run this country for decades, knowing Social Security would implode and have flat refused to do anything about it.
We Are Collapsing Under the Weight of Our Entitlements
We are collapsing under the weight of our entitlements and this will inevitably lead to our fiscal destruction and demise as a free nation..
How’s Joe Biden Doing on His Promises?
The question of whether Joe Biden should run again in 2024 will be moot in two years. Why run again, when there’s nothing else to do.