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The FTC was issuing the law suit on behalf of other clients. Try actually reading the posts. And it’s not yet gone to trial.

Oh yes you did bring up SF or NY, and that was what I responded to.

Anybody can sue anybody. I tried to get to the articles, but the only thing I found was that some of the people using the Amazon platform were balking at having to follow the rules that Amazon had set up in order to use the platform. So how is that criminal?

But what of it? What is your point? My comment to you were about the following. And yes, no one is forcing any one to live where they can’t afford to make a living or in a job where they have a poor income.

Oh really?

Not quite what I said. I said that no one is forcing anyone to remain at a job i they are not getting a good salary. They can always find another job. And this post was made in reference to you saying that people had to live in SF or NY because that was where medical health and support...

I’m sure thats true, but there are a lot of places other than San Francisco or New York where you could get the help you needed. You don’t have to go live in the most expensive places in the nation. ;-)

Ok, that’s fair. But I’m sure that you realize that SS is being funded directly or indirectly by private industry.

I grew up in a very rural area. The racial mix was about 50/50. We had good health care and all of the other infrastructure and services that you are saying that places outside of NY and SF don’t have. That is simply not true. We had handicapped folks, both physically and mentally, and yet...

Trying to put the blame on someone else again???

Do you prefer the alternative?

Hardly. The initial issue was the Wall Street Panic which was mainly brought on by over speculation such as buying on margin. But the cause that over speculation was a danger because of significant increase in inventory. Profit margins couldn’t be kept. Initially there was just a plateau...

I know that it’s too late for you, but what some folks do is to do periodic direct transfers from a 401K to an IRA that is totally under their control.

No - just some ideas how we could increase the current payout of SS. I’m guessing that you’re aware that currently the so-called SS fund (really just the excess payments) is only invested in government bonds, which has one of the lowest return rates. Oh and I would hardly say that I’m on the...

Ron, all I have been doing is suggesting ways which we could potentially increase SS payouts. That seems to be one of the key things that you and many others have been asking for. It’s very doubtful that can happen with the current system because currently excess money pumped into SS is...

Yea, but simply manufacturing in itself will lead to over stocked inventory if there is no means to consume those goods. So I still consider the flow as being a critical part of the picture. As far as gold (or more really silver), it did tend to limit the availability of whatever the exchange...

I’d worry that they could become a fire hazard.

The rise of capitalism, the dying of the medieval hierarchy systems, the Industrial Revolution. The gradual demise of basing money on gold or silver, the growth of consumerism…. All of these factors increased the flow of money, which stimulated the production of stuff. Of course the chart is a...

We already have a method in place which benefits the poorer over the richer. The first $100 paid into SS has a higher ROI than the second $100, and the second has a higher ROI than the third. That means that the person that is able to max out their yearly payroll tax will not get as large of a...

The mission statement from the SS web site states: “Social Security is committed to helping maintain the basic well-being and protections of the people we serve.” Two key words - helping and basic. Only the basic. In another spot they use the phrase “to provide for the basic financial needs...