Collecting My Thoughts

If you are retired and receiving a public pension (like STRS or PERS in Ohio) you couldn't "double dip" and also get your soci...

"In 2021, Social Security spent $57 billion more than it collected in dedicated tax revenue and interest on its trust funds. The truste...

Dr. Warren Lathem, a retired UMC pastor and husband of a blogger friend, writes on Facebook,  (1) Warren Lathem | Facebook  : "Atlanta ...

 

The Democrat candidates are "monkey say monkey do" and they climb on the socialism clown wagon daily. O'Rouke wants your 2nd a...

The recession was over in June 2009, but the reason the workers didn't see a lot of change was the government intervention, so there was...

This Friday the Lakeside Women's Club book review is "Nomandland; surviving America in the 21st century" by Jessica Bruder. (2...

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American family earned $74,664 (before taxes) and spent $57,311 across various expe...

I know there are some who think Medicare is "free" healthcare, and believe all Americans should have it rather than the ragged, p...

I know a lot of men and women who live together, some in my age group,  who don't believe "marriage equality" works for them. ...

Seniors are not hurting. "Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa) has introduced legislation to increase Social Security benefits and build a g...

                        I was looking at a red t-shirt that said, "Capitalist."  Most of my professional life I worked for the g...

While filling in gaps in the genealogy database I came across a transcribed document on the Internet from 2011, not available the last time ...

Some people forget that G W Bush also inherited a recession. The percent of retirees in 2001 who felt very confident or somewhat confident ...

"Outrage is stirring over a California law permitting state and government workers who commit crimes to continue receiving pensions. Un...

27 states had old age programs before the passage of the Social Security Act in 1935. They were known as OAA, Old Age Assistance. However, t...

I obviously was in the wrong public service profession. My teacher's pension, Ohio's STRS, is almost exactly the same as my husband...

Sorry guys. The state legislature owes the pension funds. Unions have a lot more clout than students. This is not a pretty picture. Terry S...

California college students are protesting a tuition hike of 32% brought about by the compensation packages won from the state by the public...

But they don't say it that way, do they? Sometimes you hear, twenty-six years, or even "the 1930s." FDR is never blamed for t...