Like Lemmings Off a Cliff...

port1080.

Posted to Politics on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 02:59:31 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

A new report by the trustees for Medicare and Social Security suggests that current spending rates will drive the two large entitlement programs to insolvency within the next few decades. Medicare is expected to go bust first - by 2019 - but Social Security will follow soon after and run out of funds sometime around 2041.

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Your Right To Your Privacy Info Ends At A Government File

MayorBob.

Posted to Legal on Sun Jan 06, 2008 at 07:39:54 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

"This is frightening.  You know, a Social Security number is really the fingerprint to somebody's identification." - Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler

When Attorney General Gansler found his Social Security account number was posted on a web site maintained by the state he works for, he reacted with horror and shock.  Perhaps he shouldn't have been so shocked.  After all, it turns out that Gansler is hardly alone.  In fact, millions of his fellow citizens' "fingerprint accounts" are out there, openly posted on the internet -- most of them located on government web sites.

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