Some Social Security Myths

When out of ideas, the lefties can always revert to telling lies about the Social Security system and trying to scare more old folks.

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Conspicuous Consumption

I have always been fascinated with all aspects of how people deal with money; how they get it, how they invest it, how they spend it, and so on.  From a purely academic perspective, how criminals handle money is interesting.  I have mentioned how humorous I find it when people spend more time and energy to illegally make money than it would take to earn similar amounts via legal means.

Since a well established method of finding things is to follow the money, a wise criminal (oxymoron?) knows not to make too big a scene with a newly acquired windfall of cash so as to avoid attracting undue attention.  I found this story amusing of a bank robber who laid low and waited a year before going on a wild spending spree, as if all memory of the robbery would have disappeared by then.  

KMK

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