Tools to Enlighten
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 …