Showing posts with label SSI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SSI. Show all posts

Sunday, October 30, 2011

How SSI went negative, and no one knew

Last year, as a debate over the runaway national debt gathered steam in Washington, Social Security passed a treacherous milestone. It went “cash negative.”

For most of its 75-year history, the program had paid its own way through a dedicated stream of payroll taxes, even generating huge surpluses for the past two decades. But in 2010, under the strain of a recession that caused tax revenue to plummet, the cost of benefits outstripped tax collections for the first time since the early 1980s.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Social Security a Ponzi scheme? I called the S.E.C.



Here's the latest video in which I look up the S.E.C.'s very own definition of a Ponzi Scheme, and then call their "Whistleblower" number to report Social Security. You won't believe their reaction. I encourage everyone watching the video to do the same.