Remember when Bush was talking Private Option to Social Security?

Here's what the media didn't tell you: the Galveston Plan: Back in 1980 the employees of Galveston County voted to opt out of Social Security for a private plan. Two other counties joined in just before Congress...

Obama proposes one time payment to SS Recipients-stagnant economy

Due to the down turn in the economy, there will be no Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) this year for Social Security recipients. President Obama tried to preempt an announcement that there would be no increase for...

Costa Rican Ex-President Convicted in Historic Trial

Costa Rican Ex-president Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier (1990-1994), was found guilty of peculation in what was known as the Caja-Fischel case, which culminated in the largest corruption scandal and the first...

Old age and sufferings in developing nations

Handicapped aged woman filling drinking water from  road side at Pant hospital new Delhi, India. Aged people need attention and social and medical security so grieving aged life is...

Health Care Debates--Patriotic or UnAmerican?

  The president is trying to enact laws to reform the system, make it more fair to all Americans. Administration officials and congressional leaders are going across the nation to explain and promote the...

International sexual terrorism - your ambassadors abroad

When people travel from their home land they become ambassadors to the nation they belong to. However it would seem that countries that have citizens worried about sex predators. Within a neighborhood or play...

Calais migrants ambush Britons at knifepoint

"Migrant gangs in Calais are targeting British holidaymakers in terrifying 'highway robberies'. Would-be illegal immigrants are forming human roadblocks to force motorists passing through the French port town to...

The Debt Time Bomb

The U.S. economy is still struggling. And the credit markets are still failing to function – mostly because the roots of the American financial system remain diseased. Thanks to the crisis-deferral tactics of...

Death Master File: Researchers Find Social Security Number Hack

Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, have found a way to guess social security numbers based on the structure of those numbers based on examing the publicly-available SSDI,...

Social Security Number Code Cracked, Study Claims

Researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh could able to predict the social security numbers based on personal data like birth date. " For all the concern about identity theft, researchers say there's a surprisingly easy way for the technology-savvy to figure...

A Bigger Ponzi Scheme Than Madoff's

A Bigger Ponzi Scheme Than Madoff'sYesterday, Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for stealing approximately $65 billion dollars from investors through a Ponzi scheme. The story in itself is uninteresting as anyone that commits fraud should be prosecuted. ...

President Bush: The Ultimate Exit Interview

George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, gave his 47th and final news conference today in what he called "...the ultimate exit interview...". " A retiring President George W. Bush, delivering the...

Social Security wins worst agency title in Mexico!

A well deserved title, I have had to make some "urgent' paperwork and appointments that takes months to be taken care of. I hope this contest serves as an incentive to improve their service. " MEXICO CITY - Here...

Social Security the Greatest Ponzi Scheme Ever?

" The federal government today collects payroll taxes from approximately 163 million white- and blue-collar workers, which is used to finance the retirement benefits of 50 million Americans. In fiscal 2008, Washington collected $785 billion in taxes and paid out approximately...

US Government Takeover of it's Financial Crisis? Real or Scam?

The International Institute of Nonviolence News&Opinion By: Rev. Jermano   Note: 1000 Billion = 1 Trillion Well folks the US Government is in a heap of trouble, and one wonders whether all this takeover...

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