Tools to Enlighten
OPINION and ANALYSIS It has always been somewhat unclear as to whom Trump’s ICE is trying to deport. Elsewhere we have expressed the strong opinion that because of inadequate American birth rates, in order to have the proper worker-to-retiree ratio to support Social Security into the 2040s we actually need more immigrantion–not less. Moreover, we’ve Read More …
OPINION and ANALYSIS: Trump wants Senator Mark Kelly and other Democratic members of Congress lynched for stating what military manuals say. Namely, that soldiers, sailors, Marines and Air Force personnel don’t have to obey illegal commands. Threatening to prosecute and then hang members of the opposition party because of the expression of a political 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 …