What Do They Say?
National Defense is the first topic I would like to smack.
Yes, I need to edit this later to a more compact presentation.
They say:
We need endless ammunition and endless ability to punch in the nose.
I say:
I approve of the only tank we have left is one on loan, from Taiwan's man. Here's a picture of it. Green, airy.
https://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/9200202-inflatable-tank-man-taiwan-marks-tiananmen-protest.html#.23140-stage-set3-6
(Dear mail.com 'news on the sign-in page' people, Thanks for the picture. And thank you for the good email account. The attacks on it have been horrendous but you have cleaned them out. I give you permission to smack them as hard as you can.)
We need endless ammunition and endless ability to punch in the nose.
I say:
I approve of the only tank we have left is one on loan, from Taiwan's man. Here's a picture of it. Green, airy.
https://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/9200202-inflatable-tank-man-taiwan-marks-tiananmen-protest.html#.23140-stage-set3-6
(Dear mail.com 'news on the sign-in page' people, Thanks for the picture. And thank you for the good email account. The attacks on it have been horrendous but you have cleaned them out. I give you permission to smack them as hard as you can.)
They say:
Per the White House website, Budget of the U.S. Government for Fiscal Year 2109, Mr. Trump writes:
...my Budget requests $750 billion for national defense, an increase of $34 billion, or 5 percent, from the 2019 enacted level."
The "DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Funding Highlights" page, IN THE SAME DOCUMENT reads:
"The Budget requests $718 billion for DOD, a 33 billion or 5-percent increase from the 2019 enacted level."
Elementary school taught me that $750 billion is not the same as $718 billion. They are extraordinarily casual with HUGE numbers. Those numbers mean that you lose your house.
When I look up numbers, the various departments of the United States of America vary wildly in their estimates of things. For example, no one would state firmly how many persons were on social security. I understand being off a few hundred as things change. But the numbers estimated were... estimated, by their own words, and they varied by millions, by ten million. So... who is getting those social security checks? How many of them are dead persons getting a check that is cashed by a not-them person. I have heard 50 million are on social security. I'd like to know how many are simply kids of single moms who raised them with welfare/social-security and the kid realized that all he/she had to do was do or claim four things and they would get social security for life.
Per the White House website, Budget of the U.S. Government for Fiscal Year 2109
Budget Totals in Billions of Dollars
For 2019-
Receipts $3,422 (billion)
Outlays - $4,407 (billion)
Deficit $984 (billion)
Debt held by the public $16,872 billion - this is a way to say it that I have not seen before. Something is fishy.
Let's talk social security. They want 939 billion.
In the budget published, it states that $939 billion is for social security.
The numbers are wildly off base.
I found, in the sites of financial gurus and the U.S. census for population and in research done by Congress, hugely different numbers.
In 2010, it was $170 billion.
In 2009, it was $24 billion -
2009 – 16.6 million persons - SSDI benefits - 8.9 million. SSI benefits 7.7 million. Combined, 16.6 million persons.
Which works out to $1445 a month. Which sounds average right. (As in it fits the other numbers approximately)
"Two programs, both run by the Social Security Administration.
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) $124 billion 2010. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) almost $46 billion 2010."
I thought the outlay for Social Security was $730 per month, but I see that retirees get $1461 on average and it is likely closer to that for the disabled as well. Otherwise, one cannot afford an apartment.
$730 per month is $8760 per year. Multiplied by fifty million persons (the number I heard) is $36,500,000,000 per year. That is 36 billion, not 939 billion.
What is $939,000,000,000 divided by the check amounts?
1,286,301,369 people (if $730 per month)
642,710,472 people (if $1461 per month ) or 600 million people. Which is not true.
Some comments found -
At a Dec. 1, 2010, meeting of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform -- the Simpson-Bowles commission that was tasked with finding a solution for soaring deficits -- one of the panel's members, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., cited disability payments as an example how government spending has gotten "out of control."
"We've created dependency," Coburn said. "And one great example is one in 19 Americans today get SSDI or SSI. That's one in 19 Americans (who) are disabled, and when the law says you're only disabled if there's no job in the economy you can perform, and we don't address that issue in this plan."
We won't take sides on the question of whether SSDI and SSI should be cut or modified -- as Coburn and other critics have suggested, citing both cost and allegations of fraud by applicants -- but we were intrigued by the idea that more than 5 percent of Americans receive payments from one program or the other. We'd bet that most Americans who don't receive SSDI or SSI benefits are only dimly aware of these programs. Yet, if Coburn is right, these programs cover more than the percentage of Americans who are of Asian-American heritage (4.5 percent), more than double the number of American Jews (approximately 2 percent) and five times the number of American Indians (1 percent). So we decided to see if Coburn was right.
First, some background on the two programs, both of which are run by the Social Security Administration.
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is funded by Social Security taxes paid by workers, employers and the self-employed.
The program is set to pay out almost $124 billion in benefits this year.
By contrast, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is financed through general revenues rather than by taxes specifically paid into the Social Security system
The federal government appropriated almost $46 billion for its share of benefits this year.
$170 billion in 2010.
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https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/
U.S. Population (LIVE) The current population of the United States of America is 328,894,358 as of Saturday, June 1, 2019, based on the latest United Nations estimates. the United States population is equivalent to 4.27% of the total world population.
Multiplied by fifty million persons is 36,500,000,000 per year. That is 36 billion, not 939 billion.
What is 939,000,000,000 divided by the check amount I’ve heard was standard. 730-1461
1,286,301,369 people down to 64.27 million
61 million people
About 61 million people collect Social Security benefits each month, and they account for about one in five people in the United States. In about one family in four, someone is receiving Social Security benefits.
2011 - 56 million persons-- Number of Americans receiving Social Security benefits, 18% of the total population.
2009 – 16.6 million persons - SSDI benefits - 8.9 million. SSI benefits 7.7 million. Combined, 16.6 million
If you divide that figure by the total United States population in 2009 of 307 million people, it works out to be 5.4 percent, or just slightly more than one out of every 19 Americans.
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Putting together two facts per government persons - The "population of the United States of America is 328,894,358 as of Saturday, June 1, 2019," and "one in 19 is getting social security," this equals 17.3 million persons. Not 61 million. Precisely: 17,310,229
Per the White House website, Budget of the U.S. Government for Fiscal Year 2109
Budget Totals in Billions of Dollars
For 2019-
Receipts $3,422 (billion)
Outlays - $4,407 (billion)
Deficit $984 (billion)
Debt held by the public $16,872 billion - this is a way to say it that I have not seen before. Something is fishy.
Let's talk social security. They want 939 billion.
In the budget published, it states that $939 billion is for social security.
The numbers are wildly off base.
I found, in the sites of financial gurus and the U.S. census for population and in research done by Congress, hugely different numbers.
In 2010, it was $170 billion.
In 2009, it was $24 billion -
2009 – 16.6 million persons - SSDI benefits - 8.9 million. SSI benefits 7.7 million. Combined, 16.6 million persons.
Which works out to $1445 a month. Which sounds average right. (As in it fits the other numbers approximately)
"Two programs, both run by the Social Security Administration.
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) $124 billion 2010. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) almost $46 billion 2010."
I thought the outlay for Social Security was $730 per month, but I see that retirees get $1461 on average and it is likely closer to that for the disabled as well. Otherwise, one cannot afford an apartment.
$730 per month is $8760 per year. Multiplied by fifty million persons (the number I heard) is $36,500,000,000 per year. That is 36 billion, not 939 billion.
What is $939,000,000,000 divided by the check amounts?
1,286,301,369 people (if $730 per month)
642,710,472 people (if $1461 per month ) or 600 million people. Which is not true.
Some comments found -
At a Dec. 1, 2010, meeting of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform -- the Simpson-Bowles commission that was tasked with finding a solution for soaring deficits -- one of the panel's members, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., cited disability payments as an example how government spending has gotten "out of control."
"We've created dependency," Coburn said. "And one great example is one in 19 Americans today get SSDI or SSI. That's one in 19 Americans (who) are disabled, and when the law says you're only disabled if there's no job in the economy you can perform, and we don't address that issue in this plan."
We won't take sides on the question of whether SSDI and SSI should be cut or modified -- as Coburn and other critics have suggested, citing both cost and allegations of fraud by applicants -- but we were intrigued by the idea that more than 5 percent of Americans receive payments from one program or the other. We'd bet that most Americans who don't receive SSDI or SSI benefits are only dimly aware of these programs. Yet, if Coburn is right, these programs cover more than the percentage of Americans who are of Asian-American heritage (4.5 percent), more than double the number of American Jews (approximately 2 percent) and five times the number of American Indians (1 percent). So we decided to see if Coburn was right.
First, some background on the two programs, both of which are run by the Social Security Administration.
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is funded by Social Security taxes paid by workers, employers and the self-employed.
The program is set to pay out almost $124 billion in benefits this year.
By contrast, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is financed through general revenues rather than by taxes specifically paid into the Social Security system
The federal government appropriated almost $46 billion for its share of benefits this year.
$170 billion in 2010.
111111111111111
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/
U.S. Population (LIVE) The current population of the United States of America is 328,894,358 as of Saturday, June 1, 2019, based on the latest United Nations estimates. the United States population is equivalent to 4.27% of the total world population.
Multiplied by fifty million persons is 36,500,000,000 per year. That is 36 billion, not 939 billion.
What is 939,000,000,000 divided by the check amount I’ve heard was standard. 730-1461
1,286,301,369 people down to 64.27 million
61 million people
About 61 million people collect Social Security benefits each month, and they account for about one in five people in the United States. In about one family in four, someone is receiving Social Security benefits.
2011 - 56 million persons-- Number of Americans receiving Social Security benefits, 18% of the total population.
2009 – 16.6 million persons - SSDI benefits - 8.9 million. SSI benefits 7.7 million. Combined, 16.6 million
If you divide that figure by the total United States population in 2009 of 307 million people, it works out to be 5.4 percent, or just slightly more than one out of every 19 Americans.
111111111111111
Putting together two facts per government persons - The "population of the United States of America is 328,894,358 as of Saturday, June 1, 2019," and "one in 19 is getting social security," this equals 17.3 million persons. Not 61 million. Precisely: 17,310,229