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Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours number could be at risk for theft. offer a fabulous opportunity to pay off your credit There’s nothing fun about credit-card debt. ® John Cuddihy Flags “A” Flying Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. If your card is pre-2004, your date of birth card debt. But it requires a steady hand a strong An outstanding balance of $5,000 that is subject to Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 and Social Security numbers are right on the front of Biz Card, BW, rate determined mind. You must be13x focused, and fully 19.99 percent interest means you’re paying about Mary Hunt the card. to a strategy gives you the best $1,000 a yearby just in interest. 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What’s Wrong With Social Security? Recently, one of my readers criticized some points I made in a column. Among other things, he complained that my philosophy (at least according to his take on my columns) is too upbeat. He said this: “As you see it, everything about Social Security is good.” Most of the time, I use this space to explain complicated and oftentimes confusing Social Security rules and regulations. And I will admit that I must occasionally use this column to defend the program against all kinds of crazy and misleading rumors that are spread about Social Security’s history and policies -- mostly via the Internet. But when I feel that something about the program, or something about the way the program is administered, deserves to be criticized, I have always done so. I don’t have the space in today’s column to cover them all, so I will take on one policy gripe, one program issue and one administrative complaint. I’ve covered all these subjects in the past, so I ask forgiveness of those readers who have carefully read my columns. But for those who think I’m some kind of Social Security apologist, listen up. My biggest policy complaint has to do with the way the Social Security program has been financed since the 1980s. When Social Security started in the 1930s, it was set up with a pay-as-you-go financing scheme. In a nutshell, that meant the program took in only enough money (taxes) each year to pay its expenses (monthly benefits), with just a small cushion in reserve funding. That small cushion was the Social Security trust fund, which was invested, by law, in U.S. government securities. There BEL AIR GREENS never was really all that much capital in those trust 6th pg. funds, only enough to keep the system driving along Nov. 21st, 2010 over rough patches on the economic highway, like periods of high inflation or high unemployment. But in 1983, President Reagan set up a National Commission on Social Security Reform, headed by Alan Greenspan. And they .. s fundamentally ’ . t changed the program’s funding I structure. E By cutting some current and future benefitsR(e.g. eliminatE ing student benefits and raising the H retirement age) and by slightly increasing the Social Security payroll tax, they set Social Security on a course to build up huge reserves in its trust funds. In other words, they moved Social Security away from its historic pay-asyou-go formula to one of large capital accumulation. The problem is that capital is U.S. government treasury notes. (Because Social Security represents about one-sixth of the entire federal budget,

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the monies cannot be invested in a diversified port- were running the agency, among other things, I folio involving private securities. I don’t think we would change the way new employees are trained. want the government owning a controlling interest When I was hired 40 years ago, I got about 3 months in Apple Computers or Philip Morris!) Anyway, right of intensive, non-stop, personal training. Today, SSA now, the system has about $2.8 trillion dollars in employees get half of that, and much of it is computcan’t do a 5 good job treasury securities, making the Social Security sys- er-generated training. You simply TUES., NOV. tem the second largest holder of government debt, of explaining all these complicated Social Security Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pri behind China! Many people, including me, don’t like rules and regulations if you don’t thoroughly understand them yourself. that funding structure. But it is what it is. 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The U.S. Senate has a Special Committee on Aging, as well as an Aging Fraud Hotline. While it handles any type of complaint about fraud against a senior, it’s been especially busy lately because of Obamacare. The scammers are out there, and they’re targeting seniors. DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a female The committee’s new press release lists in my 70s. When I was 12 years old, I, along some tricks scammers might use to cheat you: with a younger brother and older sister, all had  If you have Medicare, you don’t need to what our doctor called “yellow jaundice.” We buy Obamacare, period. If someone tries to sell you all were ver y sick for about two weeks. It was a policy knowing you receive Medicare, it’s illegal. ver y contagious and a good percentage of the  The scammers will try to get you to disschoolchildren had it, although none of my close personal information, such as your Medicare family members at home caught it from us. or Social Security number, or your bank account I know jaundice in itself is not a disease. ANSWER: Your doctor isn’t coming from number. With even only some of that information, Could we have had hepatitis? Are there any out of left field. Heartburn can be an asthma trig- your identity can be compromised and your entire long-term effects from it? -- A.P. ger. Heartburn is officially called gastroesophageal savings wiped out. reflux -- an upward shooting of stomach acid and  Scammers can show up at your door, or ANSWER: It does indeed sound like hepatidigestive juices into the esophagus, the swallowing might phone you or send you email. They might pretis. tend to just verify information, hoping you’ll correct tube. The most common form of contagious hepa The juices can rise soTUES., far up that they MAR. 15leak them with the right information. titis is called hepatitis A. It comes from contaminated  Hang up on anyone who calls and says out of the esophagus and trickle into the bronchi, food or water, but it sounds like your family was very carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling they’re Please review  Prices  Social Hours Security or Medicare. They will from the airways. That’s what sets off an asthma attack. careful if nobody else at home caught it. Fortunately, never call you, unless you’ve made arrangements Contact Tidbits representative immediately with changes or with corrections. hepatitis A does not have any long-term effects, the your them in advance. Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer way hepatitis B and C do. Office: 760-320-0997 Fax:them 760-320-1630 individual letters, but he will incorporate in his column  Medicare open enrollment ended on Dec. Acute mononucleosis sometimes causes whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an or- 7, but scammers likely will say that “something” went hepatitis, but if a lot of kids had it at the same time, I der form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, wrong with your enrollment information, and they Orlando, FL 32853-6475. suspect it came from food. There is now a vaccine for Clock Bob’s Repair need to get it from you again. hepatitis A, which is recommended for all travelers. The Aging Fraud Hotline can help with any BZ 4C (c) 26x 2013 North America Synd., Inc. The booklet on hepatitis explains the three differnumber of issues related to fraud against seniors: RightsVol. Reserved Mar. 20,All2011 7 - No. 12 ent kinds -- A, B and C. Readers can obtain a copy identity theft, Medicare, retirement savings, phone by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 503W, Box 536475, ADVERTISING PROOF scams, Social Security and more. If you need to file a complaint, call it toll-free at 1-855-303-9470. Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money TUES., JULY 26 Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. also a mail form on its website at www.agThere’s order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours Howard Miller • Ridgeway • Sligh • Antique ing.senate.gov. Click on the Contact link and fill in recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow the blanks. We also four weeks for delivery. Service, Repair and New Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. repair Wall, To contact Medicare, call 1-800-MEDICARE. Mantel, *** Movements from Germany Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 760-320-1630 Email: valleybits@msn.com Ship’s and To report identity theft, call the Federal Trade Com DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I looked in the 32 years Cuckoo B oB ’ s C loCk s hop Clocks mission at 1-877-438-4338 or go online to www.ftc. experience mirror this morning and couldn’t believe what I gov/idtheft. Carlsbad / San Diego / Desert Communities saw. My right eye was bright red. It looked like

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ask when we plan to marry. For personal reasons, we do not plan to do so. How would you recommend that we answer them?

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