Archive for March, 2009
Suspend Social Security Taxes for One Month
In a blog post to the Wall Street Journal’s website, Amitai Etzioni has offered a proposal which he feels could stimulate the economy without increasing the federal deficit.
The plan proposed by Etzioni is simple: Social Security taxes should not be collected for a month by the government. Collect the taxes of this one month only [...]
Social Security Disability: On The Record Appeal and Decision
Thanks Harold for another great video!
HAROLD: Well greetings YouTube subscribers and YouTube friends, I want to talk to you briefly about a policy that the Social Security Administration implemented that I think you need to know about, especially if you’re filing for Social Security disability and have been denied and you are going to [...]
Social Security Disability: Your Tax Dollars at Work
JUDGE JUDY: What do want disability for?
CHRISTOPHER CASEY: Learning disability. When I’m out on a job, I can’t properly be as quick as normal people can. That’s when all this bicker backer started. I’m slow.
JUDGE JUDY: But you just worked and you want money. You can’t do that. How much money do you collect [...]
The Social Security Trust Fund: A Dangerous Illusion?
Not only will the federal budget register a $1.75 trillion dollars deficit in 2009, but the Obama administration is going to add to the public debt another $4.9 trillion over the next years. Furthermore, the recession brings about an even worse entitlement crises. Darren Gersh, Washington, D.C. bureau chief for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), [...]
Is the era of large Social Security surpluses over?
REPORTER: Well, as President Obama works to pass his budget, his job will be complicated by a big change in the government’s math. Based on numbers from the President’s budget and the Congressional Budget Office, it appears that the era of large Social Security surpluses is over. Darren Gersh examined the numbers and found that [...]
How Social Security Works
SHANE KILLIAN: I have been making a lot of science ideas because I’ve seen a great need for people to have a greater understanding of science. Once again, like every election year, I started seeing a similar girth of knowledge with political policy.
It’s amazing how may otherwise skeptical people just turn it off when [...]
Bizarre Social Security Fraud Puzzles Florida City
Responding to a complaint regarding nuisance cats at the home of a day care teacher Penelope Jordan in Sebastian, Florida, the police chanced upon a totally bizarre discovery. In the bedroom of this 61 year old teacher, they discovered remains of her mother Timmie which had been mummified over a period of over six years [...]
Free $250 Recovery Stimulus Check for all SS and SSI Recipients
Vice President Joe Biden and Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, announced today that the federal government will send out $250 economic recovery payments to people who receive Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits beginning in early May 2009 and continuing throughout the month. No action is required to get the [...]
Social Security and the Farmer (1955)
Here’s another great SS infomercial from the 1950s.
Narrator: A day different from all other days dawned on the farms and ranches of the United States late in 1954, when Social Security was extended to cover farm operators for the first time, and to cover many more hired farm workers than before. This was an important [...]
Thou Shalt Not Bash Social Security
In a recent article for the U.S. News & World Report, Philip Moeller writes that many working people see the Social Security as undependable. He says most people think that the Social Security program will disappear or will dramatically cut payments in the future.
According to a newly released Sun Life Financial research report, it appears [...]
