{"id":25140,"date":"2015-08-01T14:58:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T20:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=25140"},"modified":"2015-08-01T14:58:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T20:58:25","slug":"did-you-ever-notice-the-asterisk-on-your-social-security-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/08\/did-you-ever-notice-the-asterisk-on-your-social-security-statement.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Did you ever notice the asterisk on your Social Security statement?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25142\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/08\/Social_Security_card.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25142\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/08\/Social_Security_card.jpg\" alt=\"SS card\" width=\"200\" height=\"123\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is how they get you.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pay attention. \u00a0You\u2019re being ripped off:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/421790\/social-security-bankruptcy-statement-baby-boomers?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_content=55ba0b7004d3011d40000001&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/421790\/social-security-bankruptcy-statement-baby-boomers?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_content=55ba0b7004d3011d40000001&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You probably don\u2019t send your financial information to Nigeria even when the dying widows of former African dictators, moved by your Christian walk with the Lord, want to send you millions of dollars. \u00a0You most likely haven\u2019t collected your prize\u00a0from a single one of the several Asian lotteries that you\u2019ve won, or claimed your inheritance from the Caribbean bank where the Rt. Honourable Jeremiah Jackson\u00a0Esq., previously unknown to you, mysteriously left it for your use at his death. \u00a0Heck, you might even be on LifeLock.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, if you\u2019re an American, you\u2019re being defrauded, nonetheless. \u00a0By your own government. \u00a0At gunpoint.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Victoria, British Columbia<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Pay attention. \u00a0You\u2019re being ripped off: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/421790\/social-security-bankruptcy-statement-baby-boomers?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_content=55ba0b7004d3011d40000001&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter \u00a0 You probably don\u2019t send your financial information to Nigeria even when the dying widows of former African dictators, moved by your Christian walk with the Lord, want to send you millions of dollars. \u00a0You most likely haven\u2019t collected your prize\u00a0from a single one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Did you ever notice the asterisk on your Social Security statement?&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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