November 20, 2016

Social Security History Lesson

Just in case some of you young whippersnappers  (and some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts.

Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated  the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.  Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message, NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION, was removed.

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social
Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

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1.) That participation in the Program would be
Completely voluntary,

No longer Voluntary
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2.) That the
participants would only have to pay
1% of the first $1,400 of their annual
Incomes…

Updated 8:17 PM ET, Sun February 7, 2016

2016 election: Which candidate will triumph in the Year of the Monkey?

By Pamela Boykoff, Alexandra Field and Jason Kwok, CNN

Can a fortune teller reveal the next U.S. President?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/07/politics/us-presidential-election-candidates-feng-shui/index.html

Hong Kong (CNN) — If Donald Trump believes his victory is written in the stars, he may just be right.

With the Year of the Monkey and the New Hampshire primary upon us, CNN asked Hong Kong fortune teller Priscilla Lam to divine the fates of the candidates battling it out for the presidency.

A practitioner of feng shui, the ancient Chinese system of summoning good luck, she combined the art of face reading with analysis of the candidates’ birthdays and current life cycles according to the Chinese Zodiac.

Lam says she is “about 80%” confident in her predictions for the 2016 election. Those sound like pretty good odds.

(And she…