"Sen. Ted #Cruz (R-Texas) said something the White House has spent months carefully avoiding: that Trump Accounts — the new government savings program for children, created under last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act — are the foundation for eventually privatizing #SocialSecurity." Money Wise https://www.yahoo.com/finance/economy/policy/articles/dirty-little-secret-ted-cruz-112500607.html
#USPolitics #Inflation #Affordabiity
'Dirty little secret': Ted Cruz just said the quiet part out loud about Trump Accounts and Social Security privatization

Cruz called Trump Accounts a secret path to privatizing Social Security. The economist who helped build the policy disagrees. Here’s who’s right — and why it...

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The Digital Benefits and Disbenefits Cornucopia croupier has dealt the Ace of Architecture (AR-A). Full details at https://www.digitalbenefits.uk/deck/architecture/A

DBD Cornucopia is a practical tool for teams implementing welfare benefit e-government services. It assists system review to identify how digitisation choices affect claimants adversely.

#welfarebenefits #socialsecurity #socialprotection #egovernment #publicservices #uk #architecture

A New Faith <genre: hopeful climate fiction>

Sequoia, a city of climate refugees, has to decide whether to thrive in a future built from scratch or to barely survive because it cannot let go of its past.

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A New Faith <genre: hopeful climate fiction>

Sequoia, a city of climate refugees, has to decide whether to thrive in a future built from scratch or to barely survive because it cannot let go of its past.

TinJar

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A few articles that are linked in the context of the discussion around #climate #migration #immigration #crime #US #Europe #politics #crime #demographics #fertility #socialsecurity #patriarchy #colonialism #slavery and some good ideas from #Spain - the #book "A New Faith" explores these in a #fiction format.

https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith

#bookstodon #books #solarpunk #hopepunk

A New Faith <genre: hopeful climate fiction>

Sequoia, a city of climate refugees, has to decide whether to thrive in a future built from scratch or to barely survive because it cannot let go of its past.

TinJar

The Digital Benefits and Disbenefits Cornucopia croupier has dealt the Eight of Cornucopia (CO-8). The card's focus is document formats. Full details at https://www.digitalbenefits.uk/deck/cornucopia/8

DBD Cornucopia is a practical tool for teams implementing welfare benefit e-government services. It assists system review to identify how digitisation choices affect claimants adversely.

#welfarebenefits #socialsecurity #socialprotection #egovernment #publicservices #uk #cornucopia

Fraud and abuse…maybe not exactly what you think.

Fraud is real, fraud is committed by Americans against Americans. Government is not the cause, your government and you are the victims.

https://quinnscommentary.net/2026/05/26/fraud-and-abusemaybe-not-exactly-what-you-think/

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/may/25/jobs-not-benefits-cut-welfare-bill-joseph-rowntree-foundation. "The #research seeks to push back against the 'dominant #political #narrative' that #spending on #socialsecurity is 'spiralling'. Instead, it points out that official projections show spending on non-pensioner #benefits 'will remain flat, at around 5% of #GDP for the remainder of the #Parliament'." This is nothing but the truth, & is confirmed by the Office for Budget Responsibility's #statistics, @guardian.
Focus on jobs, not benefits, to cut welfare bill, says thinktank

Hitting government’s target of getting 80% of workers into jobs would reduce cost of universal credit by £10bn

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We Went To A Town Elon Musk Cut Off From Social Security

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