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have accumulated over 30 years. A garage sale wouldn’t bring in enough money for them, and I’m sure it would be the same with an antiques store or eBay. I really don’t want strangers from Craigslist coming to my house, either. I don’t know how to find the value of the items or how to get rid of them. What can I do? -- P.S., e-mail Dear P.S.: I hate to break it to you, but your things are worth exactly what someone would pay for them, not the values listed in a book or collectibles guide. Forget your preconceived notions of what these items are worth, and list them on eBay. That’s the safest way to go, with the largest audience of motivated buyers. Get what you can while you can. And good luck! Do you have a question for Mary? E-mail her at mary@ everydaycheapskate.com, or write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2135, Paramount, CA 90723. Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com and author of 18 books, including “Can I Pay My Credit Card Bill With a Credit Card?” To find out more about Mary and read her past columns, please visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.Proof created by:

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ease and prolonging life, most experts recommend CASEY’S CORNER (from page 9) choosing fiber from all sources. The best diet is the Don’t Diet Diet, which welcoming place that he enjoys. And it’s perfectly is a balanced diet containing the right sources of safe to leave him there for a few hours while you’re fats, protein and vegetables. Increasing dietary out. fact, it’s probably the safest place for him. Ad In Proof: fiber content should be a high priority. Bram’sUltimately, though, training is the tool that Wherever possible, choose less processed will give you the degree of trust you want before you 1/12thyour page, B&W, 26x rate ($84.00/wk) food over refined. Start in the morning with a cere- leave dog alone in a house full of expensive -Dr. David Lipschitz January 2, 2011 - May Destruction 15, 2011 is the No. 2 al containing 5 grams of fiber per serving. Always or inexpensive -- furniture. use multigrain bread and consume hearty servings problem people have with their Training is the [Volume 7: Issue #2 - Vol.dogs. 7: #25] of fruits and vegetables. No. 1 way to eliminate it. Corrections due by: 3 pm, Fri. 12/10/10 For those who find themselves lacking Woof! fiber in their day-to-day diet, it is time to change! But embrace change slowly. A sudden change to a Dog trainer Matthew “Uncle Matty” Margolis is the co-author high-fiber diet can lead to bloating, gas, abdominal of 18 books about dogs, a behaviorist, a popular radio and television guest, and the host of the PBS series “WOOF! It’s pain, and constipation or diarrhea. a Dog’s Life!” Read all of Uncle Matty’s columns at www.cre But by incorporating the right balance ators.com, and visit him at www.unclematty.com. 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Like you, I am a former employee of the Social Security Administration. I wish you would lay it on the line for your readers and tell them how Nixon tried to demolish Social Security by cleverly naming the “Supplemental Security Income” program to sound like Social Security and then give it to SSA to run. He certainly succeeded in demoralizing SSA employees, and I think that welfare program came close to destroying Social Security. Why don’t you come clean with your readers by airing some of the agency’s dirty laundr y?

Nixon! A demolished federal agency! Demoralized employees! Dirty laundry! This sounds like the makings of a real scandal. Although the person, who e-mailed this question to me, is a bit paranoid in his assessment of President Nixon’s role in the creation of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, I must admit that he does echo the concerns of more than a few employees and former employees of the Social Security Administration. And it even touches a bit of a raw nerve with me. It certainly makes for an interesting story and I hope a good column. At the same time, I think it will help clear up some confusion that so many people have about Social Security and SSI. To start the story, we have to go back to the early 1970s. Prior to that time, the Social Security Administration was chugging nicely along as a rather quiet and friendly federal agency. It had a reputation for good and efficient service. It was known as a great place to work. The programs we administered

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(primarily retirement, disability and survivor ben- for widow’s benefits. She complained mightily that efits) could have some complicated rules and regula- she was “forced to sit next to a smelly drunken bum tions to deal with, but they were still rather straight- in the waiting room.” To give you an idea of how difficult it is to run forward to manage. For example, if you wanted a welfare program, consider this: There are about 50 retirement benefits, we helped you fill out a simple form, you showed us a birth certificate to prove you million Social Security beneficiaries and maybe 7 were old enough to qualify, we did a little behind-the- million people getting SSI. But in your typical Social scenes paperwork, and your first check was on the Security office, about half the employees are Social Security representatives and the other half take care way in no time. At about that time, President Nixon and Con- of the much smaller SSI population. So, back to the allegations made by the forgress were looking for an agency to run a newly created federal program that they called Supplemental mer SSA representative who sent the e-mail. In the Security Income. SSI, which is a federal welfare pro- early 1970s, Richard Nixon had bigger things on his gram, was established with the best of intentions. Be- mind (i.e., Watergate) than worrying about which fore SSI legislation passed, welfare benefits for the of his many federal agencies would run the new SSI elderly poor and for indigent people of any age with program. I’m pretty sure he didn’t set out to “dedisabilities was a hodgepodge mess. Each state, and molish” the Social Security Administration. And the sometimes each county, had its own welfare program name, “Supplemental Security Income,” made sense and its own welfare rules. There were all kinds of ex- at the time when they were creating the program -- it amples of inequities in this system. An elderly widow does just what its name implies. But the fact that Social Security manages SSI with little money and few resources might be denied benefits in one town, but just down the road over the and that the name of the welfare program does sound county line, some guy who was in much better finan- like Social Security (many people call it Supplemencial shape might qualify for a sizeable monthly cash tal Social Security Income) has led to all kinds of confusion. Lots of people incorrectly assume that SSI is payment. Because there were tens of thousands if not just another kind of Social Security program. And to hundreds of thousands of examples of these kinds make matters worse, millions of folks think SSI is of inconsistencies, enough pressure was put on funded out of Social Security taxes. It is not. It is paid Congress and the administration to do something. for out of general tax revenues. Even though I’ve long since retired, I must Therefore, they decided to get rid of all the state and local welfare programs and create one large admit I rue the day SSA took on the SSI program. I federal program, with standardized eligibility rules really believe the morale of employees isn’t what it that applied to everyone in the country. The program once was, and I think service has declined. If Nixon then, as today, is designed to supplement a person’s and Congress didn’t set out to destroy Social Secuincome (thus the name “Supplemental Security In- rity, they sure messed it up. I wish they had given Tell federal them agency you to run -- like maybe the come”) up to certain levels, depending on a person’s SSI to another saw their ad living situation. Today, for example, if you’re living in post office! in Tidbits! a home that you own or rent, When your monthly income you patronize -- be it from Social Security or veteran’s benefits or If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has the our advertisers, answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast.net. To You up help any other source -- can be supplemented to about find out more about Tom Margenau and read features by otherYou rea in tidbit support The $700 with an SSI payment. Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators tidbits One big issue that had to be decided when Syndicate website at www.creators.com. paper! SSI was launched was how to manage the program. Congress and the White House chose the Social Security Administration for some logical reasons. SSA Remember: had experience in running large federal programs; BEL AIR GREENS there was a lot of overlap in6ththeir clientele (many pg. Tell our poorer Social Security beneficiaries would qualify Please... Nov. 21st, 2010 advertisers for SSI); and SSA had a vast network of field offices TELL OUR you saw their around the country. So, the agency was allowed to ADVERTISERS ad in recruit thousands of new employees and this strange Tidbits! YOU SAW THEIR new program was dumped in our laps. . . AD IN . the per Many old-time SSA employees T’S E(like I TIDBITS! son who sent me this e-mail) resented the change. R E Our quiet agency that had been managing the clean H program would and relatively simple Social Security now also be running a welfare program. And welfare programs are notoriously messy to administer. And (You wouldn’t (You have haveTidbits Tidbits let’s be honest: Some of their clients can be messy, without withoutthem) them) as well. And it wasn’t just some of the employees who were chagrined. 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