What Will the Cuts in Disability Benefits Mean?
The future of Social Security and Medicare does not look very positive at the moment, and the Social Security disability insurance program is looking particularly gloomy when it comes to the future. According to More...
A Very Depressing Look at America’s Growing Dependency Crisis
Based on a new report from the Congressional Budget Office, I wrote two weeks ago about America’s dismal long-run fiscal outlook. Simply stated, we face a Greek-style fiscal future because of changing demographics More...
Federal employee hack reveals social security numbers not encrypted
Government officials are now detailing the magnitude of the December 2014 cyber attack which leaked personal information of atleast four million federal employees. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) did More...
Investment Focuses You Should Focus On Based On Your Current Situation
Investments are not that easy and it is not at all difficult to make a mistake due to the fact that most people out there do not actually have the necessary knowledge to make a very good investment. You need to More...
Closing In On Retirement Age? Follow These Tips for More Efficient Social Security Disability Processing
With the state of today’s economy, it can difficult to determine a sound plan when it comes to applying for social security. In addition to that, even if you do have your path mapped out, your application can More...
Elizabeth Warren use social media to target GOP over disability, social security
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is taking the battle to the GOP, blasting House Republicans for making a “ridiculous” move that “threatens” Social Security just hours after she started More...
8 Steps to Keep Cyberfraud From Ruining Your Holidays
With stories continually popping up in the news regarding yet another big box store or corporation being hacked, it seems like no one’s safe from the fraudulent ways of the nimble cybercriminal. Whether you shop More...
Elizabeth Warren offers 11 tenets of progressivism, ‘We Will Fight’
photo donkeyhotey donkeyhotey.wordpress.com Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) faced an enthusiastic crowd of supporters when she took the stage at Netroots Nation, with fans toting “Elizabeth Warren for President” More...
CBO: Obamacare enrollment down, jobs being lost, deficit down but will skyrocket
The federal budget deficit will fall sharply through 2015 before surging again in the decade to come. Obamacare enrollment is well below expections and Americans will see even fewer jobs. photo: photologue_np via More...
IRS posts thousands of social security numbers online, most from political groups
The sensitive information was online for less than 24 hours, but the news that IRS posted thousands of social security numbers is another black eye for the tax agency. public domain Many of the Social Security numbers More...
Michael Duffy, TIME editor ‘We’re All Welfare Queens’ and ‘Socialists from the day we’re born’
TIME magazine executive editor Michael Duffy on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show Sunday made the statement that “We’re all socialists from the day we’re born. You know, you don’t have to More...
Health Care Reform, Social Security may be a Ponzi Scheme, but Don’t call it that
It first happened months ago, but again this week I faced some odd and interesting ridicule. I made an offhand comment that the “pay it forward” taxation that accompanies this Health Care Bill, aka Affordable More...
New Contract for America?
I’ve never been a big fan of Laura Ingraham, but I’m not thoroughly familiar with her program. A recent “Google search” (can’t I just use google as a verb?) revealed an interesting More...
State of the Nation: Bogus unemployment numbers, inflation, Sotormoyor distracts America
16.5% Unemployment ?!?! This Washington Post article (and the website itself) proclaims to calculate the actual unemployment numbers. During the Bush years we were told that the 4-6% was falsely low for various More...