A socialist shambles such as healthcare for all, affordable housing, education, etc. Republicans always are willing to spend $100’s of billions on losing wars, but nothing for the citizens of this country. Some of us think that is more important than multi million dollar jets which crash.
Meanwhile JD Vance continues to demean his wife and her family. I wonder if Stephen Miller is all in on “heritage “ Americans, since his family is more recent immigrants. As far as Tucker, some believe that the only “heritage “ Americans are defined by people here before 1492.
For those commenting re: socialism - the problem is that we’re not a a point to discuss the nuances. There are many forms of democratic socialism.
If Mona makes a comment about socialism, you can’t assume she’s talking about what you like about social democracy. Those of you saying “what’s wrong with it?” - are you looking for a king with parliament?
I am very aware of the dangers that come with state owned companies (another potential aspect of social democracy). So when the intel deal came down, I cringed. (There are nuances involved with nationalizing SpaceX or AI - those are different conversations.
The point being that we all need to take a beat and understand what someone is saying. I think very few actually support full socialism. The other piece we have to remember when choosing anything is the degradation of society. What works in other countries may not work here without some tweaks, because so many have no morals. I personally don’t care if someone gets super rich. I DO want them to pay their employees what they’re worth so they can afford “all the things”. I believe in bootstrap programs and DEI initiatives. I also understand getting there is not an overnight thing…
I am descended from some of the original colonials. My husband is descended from an enterprising man who arrived here several centuries after my people got here (and who would become, within a matter of a few decades, one of two members of his extended European family of origin still to be alive as of 1945--the other was a cousin who had emigrated to Canada in the 1930s).
My children are a blend of the two of us.
My grandchildren, better yet, represent the all-American melting pot or tossed salad, or whatever the heck it is we are. Their descent includes White Anglo Saxon Protestant, Eastern European Jewish, Irish Catholic, Polish Catholic and Mexican Catholic, among others. What a grand bunch. I honor and cherish every ingredient in the mixing bowl, and wish I could be here for the next round. We are Americans: we are an American family.
As Americans, as US citizens--as birthright citizens, one and all--our birthright is the the Enlightenment, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, centuries of complicated history, and the right to fight for what the best of us have always embraced, no matter how hard the worst of us have fought to kill it.
Looking out upon the political landscape in Bloody 2026 (land mines and tiger traps as far as the eye can see) it seems to me this is precisely the wrong time to get into internecine blood feuds about what exactly people mean by "socialist" and whether they think it's good or bad.
This is the right time to fight for the foundations of this country, ideas and principles we are sometimes weirdly reluctant to cherish, as if admiring the founding principles means we support slavery or genocide or some such horror.
We are in some very real danger of losing those foundations forever unless we come to our senses.
Quote: "Vance adds that he looks forward to resting there himself when his time comes, as will his children. But his children are the product of a marriage between himself and the daughter of recent immigrants. Her ancestors are buried in India."
-- Minor quibble. Likely her ancestors were cremated, and their ashes are part of the water and land.
part 3 - Will we ever have Liberty and Freedom dealing with Social Security retirement accounts? A portion of the taxes you pay into Social Security should belong to you to help reduce poverty. If you do not want to have a Social Security retirement account, do not set up an account for yourself. Life involves risk. I first read about the Social Security disability backlog more than 20 years ago. I do not understand why many people think they have the Right to Play God by denying people the ability to have Social Security Retirement accounts.
It is possible over 200,000 have died since January 1998. GAO discussed the backlog in 1997.
The deaths have been caused by Congress refusing to employ enough Administrative Law Judges for Social Security disability.
Do you think Democratic Party, Fake Republican Party, AARP, Social Security Works cares? I do not. I have tried to get them to care
Less than 5,000 died on 9/11.
Many years have had over 5,000 a year losing their lives waiting to see an ALJ.
People in their 20s, 30s, and 40s more likely to become disabled than die.
The wait to get Medicare after get Social Security Disability is usually 2 years. Have over 200,000 died waiting to get Medicare when not have Medicaid.
If a member of your family gets disabled, Social Security will most likely say not disabled. The wait to see an ALJ is often over a year. Varies by state.
If a member of your family who is 25 dies while waiting to see an ALJ, I doubt you would be happy about it.
The design of Social Security is a bigger problem and it killed my father. My father had a heart attack in 2010 and died in 2019. If he had been able to retire at 50, he might still be alive today.
My dad is dead in part because Democratic Party, AARP, Social Security Works all DENIED him the Liberty and Freedom to have Social Security Retirement Account.
We talk about Liberty and Freedom with July 4 coming while Democratic Party, AARP, and Social Security Works all deny us Liberty and Freedom.
Black solders and black spies fought in the American Revolution.
The families most likely to be harmed by current Social Security system are black families. I think the main reason Social Security has not been fixed is the extreme racism of Democratic Party, AARP, Social Security Works. The Fake Republican Party is more racist than the Democratic Party.
Do people care if millions of their family members keep being killed by design of Social Security.
If you have ideas on how to improve my plan, please share.
I have not been able to get members of media to care that members of their own families may die because of the current design of Social Security.
Many millions of people have died before 60 years old after paying into Social Security for more than 30 years causing their children in their 30s to get little from Social Security increasing poverty, hunger, and homelessness.
Thieves like the current design of Social Security because it helps them murder people so more money for them. Longer it takes before people may retire more people going to die before retirement.
I am a Real Republican Progressive Capitalist. A Real Republican is an opponent of gerrymandering and poll taxes. Real Progressives want to reduce poverty while fake progressives go out of their way to increase poverty. Fake progressives go out of their way to be ignorant of history and are clueless dealing with why the Constitution says what it does.
Want to save lives hold people accountable for the harm they cause via sales taxes.
Have any of the candidates for Congress come forward with a plan to reduce deaths from the current design of Social Security?
Do any of them care about buying power of money over time?
I ran for US Senate in 2002.
How to increase membership in the Republican Party - Green Papers Vox Populi
Congress should use March in Rights of Bayh Dole Act to reduce prices of prescription drugs, high tech, medical equipment, etc. March in Rights of Bayh Dole Act allows Congress to license patents of drugs to other companies when the prices are high.
If people in Maine and other states do not like the people who are running, they may want to write in the names of candidates they do like.
If people want to have more secure retirements, they may want to have interest, dividends, capital gains.
Job creation depends on capital formation.
Social Security is an important component of national security.
I would like interest, dividends, capital gains, and estates not to be taxed by federal government and other governments.
I would like gold coins and silver coins minted in USA not taxed by federal government and other governments.
I would like Congress to use Tariffs, graduated sales taxes as part of trade agreements with foreign countries to help reduce national debt and help fund Social Security, education, Medicare, etc. I would like a percentage of the money from the taxes to go to local governments and state governments. Negative externalities are the leading cause of death in the USA. Sales taxes reduce the amount of harm people cause themselves and others.
Social Security recipients may lose $500 monthly in 2032, report says
By Medora Lee USA TODAY
Jun 4, 2026
Social Security recipients may lose $500 monthly in 2032, report says | Nation | unionleader.com
Do people in our Republic believe in Liberty and Freedom?
If they do, they believe adults should be allowed to smoke in restaurants that allow smoking.
If they do, they believe more drugs should be legalized for adults to use.
If they do, they believe people should be allowed to invest up to 25 percent of their Social Security taxes into Social Security Retirement Accounts. Social Security tax should be placed on all wages a person makes in a year including stock options - difference between bought at and sold at.
How many millions of people have died before turning 60 after paying into Social Security for over 30 years?
There should be a new 3 percent Social Security tax on wages above $1 million a year. Employers should not match a person's Social Security taxes on wages above $100,000 a year.
I expect black families to be the families that benefit the most from Social Security retirement accounts. I expect many will pour their money into their family businesses. I expect they will help black males to live longer lives and over time to help reduce maternal mortality which is sky high for black families in the USA. I read over 33 years ago that black males are likely to live shorter lives than white males in the USA.
Social Security should allow people to invest up to 25 percent of their Social Security taxes into retirement/investment accounts and have this money used to pay for
Funeral costs
Life insurance
Short term disability insurance
Long term disability insurance
Health insurance plans
Health care costs
Gold
Silver
Index mutual funds
Mutual funds
Government bonds
For themselves, family members, others.
Government bonds including bonds that are used to build and run food banks, supermarkets in food deserts, homeless shelters, houses on Native American reservations, high quality affordable public housing apartments that are NOT in public housing towers, public k-12 schools, free child care centers, free elder care centers, free job training, etc.
The bonds, free child care, free elder care, free job training will likely increase tax revenues for local governments, state governments, federal government.
Life involves risks. Each person should get to decide if want to have Social Security retirement/investment account. If people put money into Social Security retirement/investment account need to realize this may reduce amount of money people get if become disabled and when retired. Do people care about Individual Liberty and Individual freedom?
GAO discussed Social Security Disability backlog in 1997.
Over 100,000 have died waiting to see an Administrative Law Judge for Social Security Disability.
Congress has the power to employ Tribunals inferior to US Supreme Court and Administrative Law Judges are Tribunals inferior to US Supreme Court.
People in their 20s, 30s, and 40s are more likely to become disabled than die.
CHANGING SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY
When people first apply for Social Security disability, they are able to get attorneys for a percentage of past due benefits.
When people have Social Security Disability and Social Security says person is no longer disabled, person should be able to get an attorney for a percentage of monthly benefits during the review process and Social Security should hold onto attorney fees during review process.
Medicare should start when first qualify for Social Security disability.
People should be allowed to buy into Medicare for all. They should not have to buy into Medicare for all.
USA should never have just Medicare for All.
When Democratic Party was in control of the US House of Representatives, the Indian Health Service did forced sterilizations of Native American females.
Congress should back our currency with gold, silver, other valuable commodities, federal government owned lands.
Need over $900 now to buy what $250 could buy in January 1981 when national debt was under $1 trillion.
U.S. citizens must be 21 years old in order to petition for alien parents. Anyone coming to the U.S. to have a baby solely as an “anchor” for “chain migration” would definitely be playing the long game! Yes, during the 25 years that I worked for INS, my coworkers who had worked on the border talked about pregnant women who sought admission after their water had broken. The practice was nowhere near as widespread as MAGA claims (with no evidence). Back then, anyone in need of immediate medical treatment would usually be paroled into the country to receive that treatment. (I retired 12 years ago. It doesn’t sound as if we still show that level of concern for people.)
I also saw the undesirable consequences of being born in a country that doesn’t recognize birthright citizenship, such as the children of Jordanian or Filipino workers who were born in Kuwait. In some cases they weren’t considered citizens of their parents’ country and were forced to use a “laissez passer” travel document from a country such as Egypt, with which they has no ties. “Jus soli” (right of the soil) combined with “jus sanguinis” (right of the blood) is the only just policy.
part 2 - If the government requires people to pay taxes for public schools and does not allow people to use vouchers to send their children to religious schools, religion in the form of secularism is established and free exercise of religion is attacked. More people have to spend on public schools when they are denied vouchers harder it is to send children to religious schools.
Local governments may limit the size of vouchers. State Supreme Court may decide vouchers have to be at least x amount. The way New Hampshire State government is doing vouchers is not constitutional. Vouchers must follow students, their parents. State government may NOT directly give money to religious schools.
The Soapbox: Help fund schools by increasing business tax base, adding donation button – and more ideas
If Manchester and other cities spent many more millions of dollars on hybrid buses within cities and between cities, they could increase the business tax base of New Hampshire by many billions of dollars a year over time helping to fund public schools and city services. The more money spent on buses the easier it is to build tall building like Boston has with parking garages faraway from them connected by buses and 24 hours a day, 7 days a week shuttles.
I would like at least 70 percent of the state rooms and meals tax to go to local governments. Local governments do most of the work to bring in revenue and yet for many years NH State government gave us a lot less than 40 percent.
I would like at least 70 percent of the state business profits to go to local governments.
I would like at least 15 percent of the sales of State owned stores that sell alcohol to be used for local police, state police, treatment of alcohol addiction, treatment of drug addiction.
I would like at least 5 percent of the money state government gets from the state rooms and meals tax and state business profits tax to be used to help fund NH Fish and Game Department to help increase tourism which is one of our most important industries.
I would like at least 20 percent of the gross revenue from gambling establishments to go to the local governments they are in. The gambling establishments should be helping to fund fire, police, education, highway and not just non-profits. The tall buildings that I would like built in Manchester and other parts of our state could have casinos, retail space, low income apartments, middle income apartments, luxury apartments, super luxury apartment.
I would like there to be a bus between UNH Manchester and UNH Durham for classes, football games, etc.
I would like passenger rail and cargo speed rail that travels at tourist speed and has stops in NH between Boston and Canada. We may also want rail that goes from NH to New York and then to Canada.
Democrats want competition for supermarkets but do not want competition in schools because they want their children to be poorly educated. I do not think Democrats care if their children are able to read. Functional illiteracy has been a major problem in our Republic for more than 70 years because of the Democratic Party. It is possible to teach first graders how to read and write with phonics. We spend more on a per student basis for k-12 education than most countries and usually provide lousy educations because the providing of education in grade 3 and sooner is often very lousy.
If you want to know how extremely corrupt judges on US Supreme Court of Corruption are, read decisions over the past hundred years while having up a copy of the Constitution on the internet. I recommend people read The Federalist Papers and study history between 1750 and the writing of the Constitution to understand why almost everything in the Constitution is in to reduce tyranny, bribery, corruption. If you have gone to a public school in the USA, I would be surprised if you know 4 Amendments that are part of the Bill of Rights and how they came about.
part 1 - I am surprised the US Supreme Court supported Birthright Citizenship. I wonder they think they will receive more gifts because of the decision. The members of NH State legislature who are required to take an oath to the Constitution of the United States of America have chosen to be enemies of Amendment One of the United States Constitution.
Article. VI.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Our two most important rights are free exercise of religion dealing with education and free exercise of religion dealing with health care. Our State legislature should be defending the right of females to have abortions instead of attacking the religious freedom of females.
Do I think Amendment Nine and Amendment 14 protect right of privacy, right to make decisions concerning our own bodies, abortion? Yes. The US Supreme Court of Corruption does not.
Abortion rights, Doctors assisted suicide when have terminal cancer depend on free exercise of religion dealing with health care.
The War of the ACLU and Democratic Party against free exercise of religion dealing with education - vouchers led to females losing the ability to have abortions.
Public education does not benefit the entire community when people lose their homes.
Public education does not benefit the entire community when children lose their homes because cities care more about spending money on high school sports teams than educating students. High school sports teams should depend on donations and not taxes.
It is often safer for LGBTQ students to be homeschooled because of violence against them in public schools.
It is often safer for black students and Hispanic students to be homeschooled because of violence against them in public schools.
I am tired of people who make it harder for Jews, Muslims, and others to practice their religious beliefs by forcing them to pay high property taxes and then denying them free exercise of religion by denying them vouchers. Home schooling may help Jews and Muslims not have to deal with the extreme religious hatred they often have to deal with in public schools.
I am tired of people who cause homosexuals to die by denying vouchers they may use to go to safe schools. Read about violence against LGBTQ students in public schools which increases suicides of LGBTQ students.
I am tired of people who cause black female students to receive lousy educations.
I am tired of paying more to educate the children of a family that has 6 members with 4 children in school that may be worth millions of dollars but pays less in taxes for schools, police, fire, highway, parks, etc. than me because they live in a less expensive home. There could be 8 children in a home going to school that pays less in local taxes than me. I am okay with helping to fund public schools. I am not okay with being stolen from. I figure I am paying more than double what I should be paying for public schools and city services because local government has refused to base taxation on usage of services and harm caused.
Local government taxes should mainly be based on usage of services and harm caused with a small component based on value of primary resiedence.
It is not possible for our city or other cities to fund schools when funding of them is based on value of primary residences. Taxes should be reduced on primary residences and user fees should be adopted to help fund schools, police, fire, etc. The more kids your family has in school the more money you pay to educate them. If have 6 kids in school, pay more than if you have 4. More people in your home more you pay for police, fire, highway, parks.
I expect the US Supreme Court after Democrats pick judges who care about the Constitution to decide cities may not base providing of local government services on property taxes of primary residences. I expect the US Supreme Court to also say that when a city government takes a home for non-payment of taxes it has to pay the home owner the appraised value of the home and not what the city gets at auction. I think a lot of cities are stealing homes from people now. They sell homes at auction cheap so politically connected people may buy them and flip them for huge profits.
A female friend of mine told me she is worried about losing her home because taxes keep going up. The Tax Cap is Democracy in action while overriding tax cap when not needed is Anti-Democratic.
If you are an enemy of free exercise of religion dealing with education, you are also an enemy of free exercise of religion dealing with health care.
Since most of the immigrants in recent years have been people of color, the whole issue of birthright citizenship is really a back door attempt to keep people of color, who tend to lean to the left, from voting. Do we think that the children of Whites from South Africa are going to be denied citizenship, or just the children whose parents come from "shithole countries"?
I'm pretty sure that I can't trace my ancestry back to the Civil War. My great-great-grandparents emigrated from, variously, Germany, Norway, Scotland and Denmark sometime in the late 19th century.
"I hope a certain kind of America will celebrate its 300th year—one that has regained its moral equilibrium and turned its back resoundingly on illiberalism in all its ugly forms. If the United States does not reverse its current retreat from the principles and traditions that ennobled it"
The US is on the verge of tipping over into something a growing majority of us do not want to see. Or at least that's how it looks to me. GK Chesterton was prophetic and described where we, as a people, are today: “We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.” This insanity must end, and sooner rather than later; demagogues need to be relegated back to the dark corners they emerged from where their poison will affect considerably fewer people (it isn't that they haven't always been around it's that they're being mainstreamed and their rants sanewashed.)
The midterm election and the general in 2028 should show us which way we are going. These two elections will be a referendum on just how much the voters want to return to a more liberal and morally just nation. It shouldn't boil down to the letter following a candidate's name -- although it will -- but the character within them; how hard they're willing to fight the political cancer and prevent it from metastasizing.
In 1905, my Jewish Grandparents arrived here on a ship from Odessa, escaping who knows what and yearning to start a new life in America. According to family lore, my grandmother was in the ninth month of pregnancy and struggled over the voyage to keep that baby inside. She succeeded, and my uncle Jack was born an American.
Great piece, Mona. Thank you. On Monday I wrote my Congress people and encouraged them to fight this fight Republicans seem eager to have on moral grounds. I think they should be called out for what they are when pressing this issue.
Thanks for this Mona.
Eliminating birthright citizenship isn't just about immigrants. Without it anybody can be stripped of citizenship.
A socialist shambles such as healthcare for all, affordable housing, education, etc. Republicans always are willing to spend $100’s of billions on losing wars, but nothing for the citizens of this country. Some of us think that is more important than multi million dollar jets which crash.
Meanwhile JD Vance continues to demean his wife and her family. I wonder if Stephen Miller is all in on “heritage “ Americans, since his family is more recent immigrants. As far as Tucker, some believe that the only “heritage “ Americans are defined by people here before 1492.
For those commenting re: socialism - the problem is that we’re not a a point to discuss the nuances. There are many forms of democratic socialism.
If Mona makes a comment about socialism, you can’t assume she’s talking about what you like about social democracy. Those of you saying “what’s wrong with it?” - are you looking for a king with parliament?
I am very aware of the dangers that come with state owned companies (another potential aspect of social democracy). So when the intel deal came down, I cringed. (There are nuances involved with nationalizing SpaceX or AI - those are different conversations.
The point being that we all need to take a beat and understand what someone is saying. I think very few actually support full socialism. The other piece we have to remember when choosing anything is the degradation of society. What works in other countries may not work here without some tweaks, because so many have no morals. I personally don’t care if someone gets super rich. I DO want them to pay their employees what they’re worth so they can afford “all the things”. I believe in bootstrap programs and DEI initiatives. I also understand getting there is not an overnight thing…
Anywho - I recommend the first few minutes of this video - https://youtu.be/AtxiCq5IFeo?is=JSBbbWSuzrvjngKb - MSNOW video of Mona at CPAC. She’s a rockstar!
Lovely, thoughtful, honorable words from Mona.
I am descended from some of the original colonials. My husband is descended from an enterprising man who arrived here several centuries after my people got here (and who would become, within a matter of a few decades, one of two members of his extended European family of origin still to be alive as of 1945--the other was a cousin who had emigrated to Canada in the 1930s).
My children are a blend of the two of us.
My grandchildren, better yet, represent the all-American melting pot or tossed salad, or whatever the heck it is we are. Their descent includes White Anglo Saxon Protestant, Eastern European Jewish, Irish Catholic, Polish Catholic and Mexican Catholic, among others. What a grand bunch. I honor and cherish every ingredient in the mixing bowl, and wish I could be here for the next round. We are Americans: we are an American family.
As Americans, as US citizens--as birthright citizens, one and all--our birthright is the the Enlightenment, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, centuries of complicated history, and the right to fight for what the best of us have always embraced, no matter how hard the worst of us have fought to kill it.
Looking out upon the political landscape in Bloody 2026 (land mines and tiger traps as far as the eye can see) it seems to me this is precisely the wrong time to get into internecine blood feuds about what exactly people mean by "socialist" and whether they think it's good or bad.
This is the right time to fight for the foundations of this country, ideas and principles we are sometimes weirdly reluctant to cherish, as if admiring the founding principles means we support slavery or genocide or some such horror.
We are in some very real danger of losing those foundations forever unless we come to our senses.
Quote: "Vance adds that he looks forward to resting there himself when his time comes, as will his children. But his children are the product of a marriage between himself and the daughter of recent immigrants. Her ancestors are buried in India."
-- Minor quibble. Likely her ancestors were cremated, and their ashes are part of the water and land.
I also look forward to Vance resting there when his time comes, hopefully within the year, to make him and all of us happy.
I want Vance to live a long life as a nobody.
part 3 - Will we ever have Liberty and Freedom dealing with Social Security retirement accounts? A portion of the taxes you pay into Social Security should belong to you to help reduce poverty. If you do not want to have a Social Security retirement account, do not set up an account for yourself. Life involves risk. I first read about the Social Security disability backlog more than 20 years ago. I do not understand why many people think they have the Right to Play God by denying people the ability to have Social Security Retirement accounts.
The figure of 100,000 dead comes from
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/disability-benefits-gao-report-death-bankruptcies-waiting-hearings/
Actuarial Note 159 from Social Security came out in May 2018 and it mentions over 80,000 dead between fiscal years 2006 and 2017.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/pdf_notes/note159.pdf
It is possible over 200,000 have died since January 1998. GAO discussed the backlog in 1997.
The deaths have been caused by Congress refusing to employ enough Administrative Law Judges for Social Security disability.
Do you think Democratic Party, Fake Republican Party, AARP, Social Security Works cares? I do not. I have tried to get them to care
Less than 5,000 died on 9/11.
Many years have had over 5,000 a year losing their lives waiting to see an ALJ.
People in their 20s, 30s, and 40s more likely to become disabled than die.
The wait to get Medicare after get Social Security Disability is usually 2 years. Have over 200,000 died waiting to get Medicare when not have Medicaid.
If a member of your family gets disabled, Social Security will most likely say not disabled. The wait to see an ALJ is often over a year. Varies by state.
If a member of your family who is 25 dies while waiting to see an ALJ, I doubt you would be happy about it.
The design of Social Security is a bigger problem and it killed my father. My father had a heart attack in 2010 and died in 2019. If he had been able to retire at 50, he might still be alive today.
My dad is dead in part because Democratic Party, AARP, Social Security Works all DENIED him the Liberty and Freedom to have Social Security Retirement Account.
We talk about Liberty and Freedom with July 4 coming while Democratic Party, AARP, and Social Security Works all deny us Liberty and Freedom.
Black solders and black spies fought in the American Revolution.
The families most likely to be harmed by current Social Security system are black families. I think the main reason Social Security has not been fixed is the extreme racism of Democratic Party, AARP, Social Security Works. The Fake Republican Party is more racist than the Democratic Party.
Do people care if millions of their family members keep being killed by design of Social Security.
If you have ideas on how to improve my plan, please share.
I have not been able to get members of media to care that members of their own families may die because of the current design of Social Security.
Many millions of people have died before 60 years old after paying into Social Security for more than 30 years causing their children in their 30s to get little from Social Security increasing poverty, hunger, and homelessness.
Thieves like the current design of Social Security because it helps them murder people so more money for them. Longer it takes before people may retire more people going to die before retirement.
I am a Real Republican Progressive Capitalist. A Real Republican is an opponent of gerrymandering and poll taxes. Real Progressives want to reduce poverty while fake progressives go out of their way to increase poverty. Fake progressives go out of their way to be ignorant of history and are clueless dealing with why the Constitution says what it does.
Want to save lives hold people accountable for the harm they cause via sales taxes.
Have any of the candidates for Congress come forward with a plan to reduce deaths from the current design of Social Security?
Do any of them care about buying power of money over time?
I ran for US Senate in 2002.
How to increase membership in the Republican Party - Green Papers Vox Populi
Congress should use March in Rights of Bayh Dole Act to reduce prices of prescription drugs, high tech, medical equipment, etc. March in Rights of Bayh Dole Act allows Congress to license patents of drugs to other companies when the prices are high.
If people in Maine and other states do not like the people who are running, they may want to write in the names of candidates they do like.
If people want to have more secure retirements, they may want to have interest, dividends, capital gains.
Job creation depends on capital formation.
Social Security is an important component of national security.
I would like interest, dividends, capital gains, and estates not to be taxed by federal government and other governments.
I would like gold coins and silver coins minted in USA not taxed by federal government and other governments.
I would like Congress to use Tariffs, graduated sales taxes as part of trade agreements with foreign countries to help reduce national debt and help fund Social Security, education, Medicare, etc. I would like a percentage of the money from the taxes to go to local governments and state governments. Negative externalities are the leading cause of death in the USA. Sales taxes reduce the amount of harm people cause themselves and others.
Social Security recipients may lose $500 monthly in 2032, report says
By Medora Lee USA TODAY
Jun 4, 2026
Social Security recipients may lose $500 monthly in 2032, report says | Nation | unionleader.com
Smoking Bans and the Role of Government
March 2, 2007
By Kenneth Scot Stremsky
https://www.thegreenpapers.com/Vox/?20070302-0
Do people in our Republic believe in Liberty and Freedom?
If they do, they believe adults should be allowed to smoke in restaurants that allow smoking.
If they do, they believe more drugs should be legalized for adults to use.
If they do, they believe people should be allowed to invest up to 25 percent of their Social Security taxes into Social Security Retirement Accounts. Social Security tax should be placed on all wages a person makes in a year including stock options - difference between bought at and sold at.
How many millions of people have died before turning 60 after paying into Social Security for over 30 years?
There should be a new 3 percent Social Security tax on wages above $1 million a year. Employers should not match a person's Social Security taxes on wages above $100,000 a year.
I expect black families to be the families that benefit the most from Social Security retirement accounts. I expect many will pour their money into their family businesses. I expect they will help black males to live longer lives and over time to help reduce maternal mortality which is sky high for black families in the USA. I read over 33 years ago that black males are likely to live shorter lives than white males in the USA.
Social Security should allow people to invest up to 25 percent of their Social Security taxes into retirement/investment accounts and have this money used to pay for
Funeral costs
Life insurance
Short term disability insurance
Long term disability insurance
Health insurance plans
Health care costs
Gold
Silver
Index mutual funds
Mutual funds
Government bonds
For themselves, family members, others.
Government bonds including bonds that are used to build and run food banks, supermarkets in food deserts, homeless shelters, houses on Native American reservations, high quality affordable public housing apartments that are NOT in public housing towers, public k-12 schools, free child care centers, free elder care centers, free job training, etc.
The bonds, free child care, free elder care, free job training will likely increase tax revenues for local governments, state governments, federal government.
Life involves risks. Each person should get to decide if want to have Social Security retirement/investment account. If people put money into Social Security retirement/investment account need to realize this may reduce amount of money people get if become disabled and when retired. Do people care about Individual Liberty and Individual freedom?
GAO discussed Social Security Disability backlog in 1997.
Over 100,000 have died waiting to see an Administrative Law Judge for Social Security Disability.
Congress has the power to employ Tribunals inferior to US Supreme Court and Administrative Law Judges are Tribunals inferior to US Supreme Court.
People in their 20s, 30s, and 40s are more likely to become disabled than die.
CHANGING SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY
When people first apply for Social Security disability, they are able to get attorneys for a percentage of past due benefits.
When people have Social Security Disability and Social Security says person is no longer disabled, person should be able to get an attorney for a percentage of monthly benefits during the review process and Social Security should hold onto attorney fees during review process.
Medicare should start when first qualify for Social Security disability.
People should be allowed to buy into Medicare for all. They should not have to buy into Medicare for all.
USA should never have just Medicare for All.
When Democratic Party was in control of the US House of Representatives, the Indian Health Service did forced sterilizations of Native American females.
Congress should back our currency with gold, silver, other valuable commodities, federal government owned lands.
Need over $900 now to buy what $250 could buy in January 1981 when national debt was under $1 trillion.
Congress should be in control of Federal Reserve.
Sincerely,
Ken Stremsky
187 Poplar Street
Manchester, NH 03104
603-647-5898
U.S. citizens must be 21 years old in order to petition for alien parents. Anyone coming to the U.S. to have a baby solely as an “anchor” for “chain migration” would definitely be playing the long game! Yes, during the 25 years that I worked for INS, my coworkers who had worked on the border talked about pregnant women who sought admission after their water had broken. The practice was nowhere near as widespread as MAGA claims (with no evidence). Back then, anyone in need of immediate medical treatment would usually be paroled into the country to receive that treatment. (I retired 12 years ago. It doesn’t sound as if we still show that level of concern for people.)
I also saw the undesirable consequences of being born in a country that doesn’t recognize birthright citizenship, such as the children of Jordanian or Filipino workers who were born in Kuwait. In some cases they weren’t considered citizens of their parents’ country and were forced to use a “laissez passer” travel document from a country such as Egypt, with which they has no ties. “Jus soli” (right of the soil) combined with “jus sanguinis” (right of the blood) is the only just policy.
part 2 - If the government requires people to pay taxes for public schools and does not allow people to use vouchers to send their children to religious schools, religion in the form of secularism is established and free exercise of religion is attacked. More people have to spend on public schools when they are denied vouchers harder it is to send children to religious schools.
Local governments may limit the size of vouchers. State Supreme Court may decide vouchers have to be at least x amount. The way New Hampshire State government is doing vouchers is not constitutional. Vouchers must follow students, their parents. State government may NOT directly give money to religious schools.
The Soapbox: Help fund schools by increasing business tax base, adding donation button – and more ideas
https://manchester.inklink.news/the-soapbox-help-fund-schools-by-increasing-business-tax-base-adding-donation-button-and-more-ideas/
The Soapbox: Cutting bus service could cost Manchester more than it saves
https://manchester.inklink.news/the-soapbox-cutting-bus-service-could-cost-manchester-more-than-it-saves/
If Manchester and other cities spent many more millions of dollars on hybrid buses within cities and between cities, they could increase the business tax base of New Hampshire by many billions of dollars a year over time helping to fund public schools and city services. The more money spent on buses the easier it is to build tall building like Boston has with parking garages faraway from them connected by buses and 24 hours a day, 7 days a week shuttles.
I would like at least 70 percent of the state rooms and meals tax to go to local governments. Local governments do most of the work to bring in revenue and yet for many years NH State government gave us a lot less than 40 percent.
I would like at least 70 percent of the state business profits to go to local governments.
I would like at least 15 percent of the sales of State owned stores that sell alcohol to be used for local police, state police, treatment of alcohol addiction, treatment of drug addiction.
I would like at least 5 percent of the money state government gets from the state rooms and meals tax and state business profits tax to be used to help fund NH Fish and Game Department to help increase tourism which is one of our most important industries.
I would like at least 20 percent of the gross revenue from gambling establishments to go to the local governments they are in. The gambling establishments should be helping to fund fire, police, education, highway and not just non-profits. The tall buildings that I would like built in Manchester and other parts of our state could have casinos, retail space, low income apartments, middle income apartments, luxury apartments, super luxury apartment.
I would like there to be a bus between UNH Manchester and UNH Durham for classes, football games, etc.
I would like passenger rail and cargo speed rail that travels at tourist speed and has stops in NH between Boston and Canada. We may also want rail that goes from NH to New York and then to Canada.
Democrats want competition for supermarkets but do not want competition in schools because they want their children to be poorly educated. I do not think Democrats care if their children are able to read. Functional illiteracy has been a major problem in our Republic for more than 70 years because of the Democratic Party. It is possible to teach first graders how to read and write with phonics. We spend more on a per student basis for k-12 education than most countries and usually provide lousy educations because the providing of education in grade 3 and sooner is often very lousy.
If you want to know how extremely corrupt judges on US Supreme Court of Corruption are, read decisions over the past hundred years while having up a copy of the Constitution on the internet. I recommend people read The Federalist Papers and study history between 1750 and the writing of the Constitution to understand why almost everything in the Constitution is in to reduce tyranny, bribery, corruption. If you have gone to a public school in the USA, I would be surprised if you know 4 Amendments that are part of the Bill of Rights and how they came about.
Sincerely,
Kenneth Scot Stremsky
187 Poplar Street
Manchester, NH 03104
603-647-5898
part 1 - I am surprised the US Supreme Court supported Birthright Citizenship. I wonder they think they will receive more gifts because of the decision. The members of NH State legislature who are required to take an oath to the Constitution of the United States of America have chosen to be enemies of Amendment One of the United States Constitution.
Article. VI.
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Our two most important rights are free exercise of religion dealing with education and free exercise of religion dealing with health care. Our State legislature should be defending the right of females to have abortions instead of attacking the religious freedom of females.
Do I think Amendment Nine and Amendment 14 protect right of privacy, right to make decisions concerning our own bodies, abortion? Yes. The US Supreme Court of Corruption does not.
Abortion rights, Doctors assisted suicide when have terminal cancer depend on free exercise of religion dealing with health care.
The War of the ACLU and Democratic Party against free exercise of religion dealing with education - vouchers led to females losing the ability to have abortions.
Public education does not benefit the entire community when people lose their homes.
Public education does not benefit the entire community when children lose their homes because cities care more about spending money on high school sports teams than educating students. High school sports teams should depend on donations and not taxes.
It is often safer for LGBTQ students to be homeschooled because of violence against them in public schools.
It is often safer for black students and Hispanic students to be homeschooled because of violence against them in public schools.
I am tired of people who make it harder for Jews, Muslims, and others to practice their religious beliefs by forcing them to pay high property taxes and then denying them free exercise of religion by denying them vouchers. Home schooling may help Jews and Muslims not have to deal with the extreme religious hatred they often have to deal with in public schools.
I am tired of people who cause homosexuals to die by denying vouchers they may use to go to safe schools. Read about violence against LGBTQ students in public schools which increases suicides of LGBTQ students.
I am tired of people who cause black female students to receive lousy educations.
I am tired of paying more to educate the children of a family that has 6 members with 4 children in school that may be worth millions of dollars but pays less in taxes for schools, police, fire, highway, parks, etc. than me because they live in a less expensive home. There could be 8 children in a home going to school that pays less in local taxes than me. I am okay with helping to fund public schools. I am not okay with being stolen from. I figure I am paying more than double what I should be paying for public schools and city services because local government has refused to base taxation on usage of services and harm caused.
Local government taxes should mainly be based on usage of services and harm caused with a small component based on value of primary resiedence.
It is not possible for our city or other cities to fund schools when funding of them is based on value of primary residences. Taxes should be reduced on primary residences and user fees should be adopted to help fund schools, police, fire, etc. The more kids your family has in school the more money you pay to educate them. If have 6 kids in school, pay more than if you have 4. More people in your home more you pay for police, fire, highway, parks.
I expect the US Supreme Court after Democrats pick judges who care about the Constitution to decide cities may not base providing of local government services on property taxes of primary residences. I expect the US Supreme Court to also say that when a city government takes a home for non-payment of taxes it has to pay the home owner the appraised value of the home and not what the city gets at auction. I think a lot of cities are stealing homes from people now. They sell homes at auction cheap so politically connected people may buy them and flip them for huge profits.
A female friend of mine told me she is worried about losing her home because taxes keep going up. The Tax Cap is Democracy in action while overriding tax cap when not needed is Anti-Democratic.
If you are an enemy of free exercise of religion dealing with education, you are also an enemy of free exercise of religion dealing with health care.
Sincerely,
Ken Stremsky
Since most of the immigrants in recent years have been people of color, the whole issue of birthright citizenship is really a back door attempt to keep people of color, who tend to lean to the left, from voting. Do we think that the children of Whites from South Africa are going to be denied citizenship, or just the children whose parents come from "shithole countries"?
I'm pretty sure that I can't trace my ancestry back to the Civil War. My great-great-grandparents emigrated from, variously, Germany, Norway, Scotland and Denmark sometime in the late 19th century.
MAGA have become peak MAGA.
They are now openly terrified of women, children, and the pregnant.
"I hope a certain kind of America will celebrate its 300th year—one that has regained its moral equilibrium and turned its back resoundingly on illiberalism in all its ugly forms. If the United States does not reverse its current retreat from the principles and traditions that ennobled it"
The US is on the verge of tipping over into something a growing majority of us do not want to see. Or at least that's how it looks to me. GK Chesterton was prophetic and described where we, as a people, are today: “We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.” This insanity must end, and sooner rather than later; demagogues need to be relegated back to the dark corners they emerged from where their poison will affect considerably fewer people (it isn't that they haven't always been around it's that they're being mainstreamed and their rants sanewashed.)
The midterm election and the general in 2028 should show us which way we are going. These two elections will be a referendum on just how much the voters want to return to a more liberal and morally just nation. It shouldn't boil down to the letter following a candidate's name -- although it will -- but the character within them; how hard they're willing to fight the political cancer and prevent it from metastasizing.
fnord
In 1905, my Jewish Grandparents arrived here on a ship from Odessa, escaping who knows what and yearning to start a new life in America. According to family lore, my grandmother was in the ninth month of pregnancy and struggled over the voyage to keep that baby inside. She succeeded, and my uncle Jack was born an American.
I love this country.
Great piece, Mona. Thank you. On Monday I wrote my Congress people and encouraged them to fight this fight Republicans seem eager to have on moral grounds. I think they should be called out for what they are when pressing this issue.