{"id":65664,"date":"2018-01-11T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65664"},"modified":"2018-01-10T22:15:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T04:15:24","slug":"top-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65664","title":{"rendered":"Top Heavy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>60 million receiving Social Security, 120 million paying into it<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/terryjeffrey\/2017\/12\/27\/social-security-beneficiaries-hit-record-61859250-n2427236\">, a 2-to-1 ratio of workers to beneficiaries<\/a>.\u00a0 We\u2019ve reached the level of the Ponzi scheme pyramid where the scam becomes unsustainable.<\/p>\n<p>How to save it?\u00a0 Maybe start by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/retirement\/general\/2015\/03\/08\/social-security-5-surprising-facts-about-noncitize.aspx\">eliminating payments to non-citizens<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0Why not, they can\u2019t vote you out of office and the rest of us certainly will.\u00a0 Side benefit \u2013 money is fungible.\u00a0 Every dollar we don\u2019t send to non-citizens living in Mexico is a dollar to Build The Wall and have Mexico pay for it. \u00a0Campaign promise kept!<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can hear the sputtering already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails 60 million receiving Social Security, 120 million paying into it, a 2-to-1 ratio of workers to beneficiaries.\u00a0 We\u2019ve reached the level of the Ponzi scheme pyramid where the scam becomes unsustainable. How to save it?\u00a0 Maybe start by eliminating payments to non-citizens. \u00a0\u00a0Why not, they can\u2019t vote you out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sovereignty","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65665,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65664\/revisions\/65665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}