Tools to Enlighten
OPINION and ANALYSIS: We aren’t having enough babies. And it’s becoming increasingly apparent, that the consequences of this are becoming huge not only for retirees but for the entire nation. Without immigration, our population will decline. This is normally thought of as a very bad thing economically, militarily and in other important areas. We take Read More …
OPINION AND ANALYSIS: Below are our videos on 5/5 and 5/7/26 on this vitally important subject because it greatly impacts both what our immigration policies should be and what our demographics are going to look like in the future.–not to mention our retirement and personal welfare. “Alarming Facts” amends “Immigrants: Do We Need Them?” Read More …
ANALYSIS and OPINION: Company CEO’s and Oligarchs want to maximize profits for themselves and for stockholders. They keep wages as low as possible. The consequence of this over the last 70 years has been the rich have gotten richer and the wages of workers have stayed relatively low. This contributed greatly to the fact that Read More …
ANALYSIS AND OPINION: Here are our videos on the outrageous way Trump spends taxpayer dollars, all at a time when the U.S. is seriously in debt with social security insolvency looming and cuts in healthcare cuts for the poor. The numbers are beyond staggering and there’s been no planning at all for the massive unemployment Read More …
OPINION and ANALYSIS: Why Trump’s use of ICE potentially hurts everyone’s retirement. The solvency of Social Security is a looming huge issue. We need not only to worry about our own retirement, but what about everyone’s elderly parents. Not having social security will make everyone’s life even more financially challenging than it already is.
OPINION AND ANALYSIS Elon Musk and Tesla can’t stay out of the news. Tesla has apparently approved a pay package that, over a ten year period, will make Musk a trillionaire. Which, yet again, points to the rise of oligarchy and the unfairness of pay for workers. There’s an infinitely better way to do things Read More …
This an important video simply because if the statistic analysis is correct, Trump’s utilization of ICE and his entire deportation scheme is not needed and is very likely just cover for his continuous attempts to seize dictatorial control over the entire U.S. government. If that is so, then one has to wonder at what Read More …
[ANALYSIS and OPINION] [Preliminary Note 3/26/26: About a year after this blog post was published Senator Whitehouse (D-RI.) made a very sensible proposal, that naturally called for higher taxes on the earnings of wealthy individuals to help fund the social security solvency crises which by March 2026 was estimated to occur in 2032. That Read More …
[OPINION and ANALYSIS.] [Author’s Note: CAUTION: The following is the result of a series of prompts (commands) to ChatGPT 4.5 and GPT Plus over a period of several days. We have not actually run (calculated) these numbers at reasonandbalance.com and thus make no guarantees as to their accurateness. Chat and AI sometimes make Read More …