I can’t believe this happened, but I know damned well it happened. That dumb ass didn’t have a clue what was signed in his name. First of all, I find it hard to understand why anyone should have the ability, let alone the authority, to use that machine for anything other than BS congratulatory letters sent out. Hell, his Executive Orders could have been written by some aide. Unbelievable!!
Category Archives: Current Events
Social Security Waste & Fraud
You really cannot make this stuff up. This report claims that this problem was discovered ten years ago and still has not been fixed. I can’t even begin to estimate how much money was and is still being paid to dead people. Someone is getting the checks. I wonder if the SSA knows whether the checks are cashed or not; probably not, civil service folks don’t want to bother with that. This seems to me to be something that could be easily fixed. Obviously,Americans are not reporting to the SSA when someone dies. OMG
Elon Musk’s DOGE team has unearthed jaw-dropping irregularity from the U.S. Social Security database.
The numbers are truly mind-boggling: over 25 million Americans registered aged 100 and older, with some purportedly older than the U.S. Constitution itself.
Late Sunday night, Musk tweeted a staggering claim accompanied by a table of ages, suggesting that the Social Security Administration might be paying out benefits to “vampires.”
“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the ‘death’ field set to FALSE. Maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,” Musk quipped.
The table Musk provided shows:
- Age 0-9: 38,825,456
- Age 10-19: 44,326,480
- Age 20-29: 47,995,478
- Age 30-39: 52,106,915
- Age 40-49: 47,626,581
- Age 50-59: 45,740,805
- Age 60-69: 46,381,281
- Age 70-79: 33,404,412
- Age 80-89: 15,165,127
- Age 90-99: 6,054,154
- Age 100-109: 4,734,407
- Age 110-119: 3,627,007
- Age 120-129: 3,472,849
- Age 130-139: 3,936,311
- Age 140-149: 3,542,044
- Age 150-159: 1,345,083
- Age 160-169: 121,807
- Age 170-179: 6,087
- Age 180-189: 695
- Age 190-199: 448
- Age 200-209: 879
- Age 210-219: 866
- Age 220-229: 1,039
- Age 240-249: 1
- Age 360-369: 1
This information released by Musk aligns with the audit conducted by the Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General (SSA OIG) in 2015.
According to the 2023 report:
In 2015, we reported that SSA had not established controls to annotate death information on the Numident records of numberholders who exceeded maximum reasonable life expectancies of age 112 or older and were likely deceased.
At the time, only 35 known living individuals worldwide were age 112 or older, however, SSA’s Numident included 6.5 million numberholders age 112 or older whose record did not contain death information.
Therefore, the numberholders’ information did not appear in the full DMF. We recommended SSA add death information to approximately 1.5 million Numident records where the numberholders’ death information appeared in SSA payment records.
We also recommended SSA determine whether it could efficiently correct the approximately 5 million remaining records. SSA agreed to explore the legal and technical feasibility, as well as the cost, to establish an automated process to update the millions of Numident records for individuals who appeared to be alive and age 112 or older, but ultimately decided not to update these records.
In response to our 2015 report, SSA considered multiple options, including adding presumed death information to these Numident records. SSA ultimately decided not to proceed because the “. . . options would be costly to implement, would be of little benefit to the agency, would largely duplicate information already available to data exchange consumers and would create cost for the states and other data exchange partners.”
SSA also believed a regulation would be required to allow it to add death information to these records, and adding presumed death information to the Numident would increase the risk of inadvertent release of living individuals’ personal information in the DMF.
We note that, as of January 2023, the full DMF included death information on approximately 137 million deceased numberholders. Over 18 million missing death records represents more than 10 percent of the records in the full DMF.
Therefore, the death information SSA currently provides Federal benefit-paying agencies–and will begin providing to the Department of the Treasury’s Do Not Pay initiative in December 2023–to help prevent improper payments to deceased individuals, omit information for more than 1 of every 10 deceased numberholders.
As of 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that approximately 101,000 Americans are aged 100 and older, representing about 0.03% of the total U.S. population, according to the Pew Research Center.
Individuals aged 110 and above are referred to as supercentenarians, a subgroup that is exceedingly rare. As of February 2025, the Gerontology Research Group reported that 136 Americans belong to this category.
Currently, the oldest living American is Naomi Whitehead, born on September 26, 1910, in Georgia, making her 114 years old. The longest-lived person in U.S. history is Sarah Knauss, who lived to be 119 years and 97 days, passing away on December 30, 1999.
For years, conservatives have sounded the alarm on government waste, fraud, and abuse—particularly within entitlement programs.
The Social Security Administration (SSA), riddled with inefficiencies, appears to have an entire army of ghost beneficiaries cashing in taxpayer-funded benefits.
Drive on Elon!!!!
Drunk, Drugs, or What?
Hi Gang, I received the below You Tube video of our new Speaker of the House. Amazing, it needs to go viral. Can anyone believe this lady. The sender asked whether she was on drugs or drunk, my guess is neither, she has simply aged to the point where she is experiencing something we will all experience someday, some more than others. To think this person is the third in line to sit in the Oval Office should something drastic happen to Trump and Pence scares the hell out of me. You watch and you decide.
Originally posted 2019-01-27 15:47:31.
DC or Bust
Hi Folks, been a long time since I posted anything. My only excuse is I have been working incessantly trying to put together all the logistics for this DC trip for my Young Marines. There have been times when I have asked myself if I may have bit off more than I can chew. But hey, as Marines, don’t we always do that? LOL
We are up to twenty-four now, boys and girls, ages 8-18, average age is still 12 1/2. Have you ever tried teaching map & compass navigation to that wide of an age span? Whew! By the way, at our first boot camp in August 2016 one of our eight-year-old recruits brought a Teddy Bear with her, another girl, age 16 drove herself there. Things do get interesting. I have often wondered why the Young Marines went so far down to age 8; their attention span for anything is one Nano-second or shorter. LOL But they are a barrel of fun, and once you get their attention they are like sponges, they can’t absorb enough.
The D.C. trip is slowly coming together. There are some challenges we’re working on overcoming. One of which I thought would be easy, but has proven most difficult i.e., the Friday night parade at The Barracks. Realizing their reservation system does not open till 15 March, I was hoping I could somehow develop a contact so I could get some idea as to which Friday could I be guaranteed reservations. Simply put, that Friday would drive everything logistic wise. No dice. I even sent the CO a copy of my book with a letter asking for a POC; that was early December, so far, no response. So, I had to simply pick a date suitable for me and the kids so I could start working on everything else. The problem is I have been retired since October 1993, that was 25 years ago, the company grade officers with whom I served at SOI are colonels and retired. I know no one in the Corps anymore. Sad what happens to you when you get old and gray. LOL No one cares about your requests anymore. 
But I have to tell you, if I were in that CO’s shoes and rec’d a request such as mine, I would have immediately scribbled the sender a quick note of acknowledgement and gave the request to my OPSO, or better yet, my Protocol Officer and told him to make it happen. I don’t care how busy I was, it’s called taking care of your own. Oh well, so be it. I had to pick dates in the dark, so the plan is to arrive Tuesday 25 June and depart Sunday 30 June.
My real challenge is still financially. We have raised a little over $11,000, but with twenty-four kids now and several pending, we have a ratio requirement of 10-1 for supervisory personnel on such ventures. So, I am looking at about 30 for the trip. Of course, I will pay my own way, but some of my adult volunteers are from very low-income families and are many of my kids. I have decided once I have all the logistics worked out and am able to place some sort of a dollar figure on the full cost, and there is not enough for everyone to go, we are not going. I won’t be selective with the kids.
Anyway, I am sending out another SOS to everyone I can and am urging our parents to do the same. The unit has several fundraisers set up for the spring e.g., pizza night, spaghetti dinner, bingo, car washes, and of course many fundraisers in front of stores as we always do. So, the kids are really working hard for this; they are PUMPED!
Once again, the GoFundMe account is still alive should you desire to donate, or you can send a donation to me at 4303 East Drive, Crystal Lake, IL 60012 should you want to make it directly thus saving the small fee they charge. Our account is at: https://www.gofundme.com/manage/fox-valley-young-marines
Thanks everyone, and may God Bless you.
Semper Fi,
Jim
Originally posted 2019-01-25 12:11:27.
“Linked In” a Voter Fraud
Yes, he was “linked in” a scam designed to illegally influence an election.
Are you a fellow LinkedIn? I am (or was). I have been a member of that site far more years than I can count. I have reunited with many lost Marine Brothers, and made so many new friends that I feel blessed. Never a day goes by without my getting a friend request from someone, or sending one out.
As an author, I have sold many books. Although that was never the intent of belonging to LinkedIn, it has served me well. But now I must say goodbye. Most of you know my story, I served this country for 36 years, I love this country, I was (and am) prepared to die for this country. I am appalled at what is happening to something I love more than anything else. I am a staunch conservative, not a Republican mind you; I do not donate to the RNC simply because there are elected GOP types who are not conservatives, scum McCain was the leaders of that group. Things are going on in my country that I never thought I would witness, but then I must always consider the source of those goings on.
Because of recent reports concerning the co-founder of LinkedIn, (Reid Hoffman), I must say goodbye to that site. If you want to know more about what he did, go to: https://lnkd.in/e5yj5DG
Who does this scumbag think he is? He’s like many of the folks who run these hot social sites e.g., Twitter, Face Book, etc. screaming liberals who want nothing more than to turn my country into a socialist global society. Why? They know their money will make them part of the elite, while us hard working souls wash their feet. Sorry, but color me gone. After many years of foolishly supporting your illegal activities I will do so no more!
Originally posted 2018-12-21 10:31:31.
