Your Social Security Code Tells On You

Although SSNs are issued in some order,
there is no simple way to tell a person's age based on his Social
Security number.

What do the numbers mean?

SSNs are not assigned consecutively; the first was not the lowest number, and the most recent is not the highest. They are assigned regionally and in batches.

The nine-digit SSN, which has been issued in more than 400 million different sequences, is divided into three parts: area numbers, group numbers and serial numbers.

• Area numbers - The first three numbers originally represented the state in which a person first applied for a Social Security card. Numbers started in the northeast and moved westward. This meant that people on the east coast had the lowest numbers and those on the west coast had the highest. Since 1972, the SSA has assigned numbers and issued cards based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the original application form. Since the applicant's mailing address doesn't have to be the same as his residence, his area number doesn't necessarily represent the state in which he resides. For many of us who received our SSNs as infants, the area number indicates the state we were born in. You can find out which area numbers go with each state at SSA.gov: Social Security Number Allocations.
• Group numbers - These two middle digits, which range from 01 through 99, are simply used to break all the SSNs with the same area number into smaller blocks, which makes administration easier. (The SSA says that, for administrative reasons, group numbers issued first consist of the odd numbers from 01 through 09, and then even numbers from 10 through 98, within each area number assigned to a state. After all the numbers in group 98 of a specific area have been issued, the even groups 02 through 08 are used, followed by odd groups 11 through 99.)
• Serial numbers - Within each group designation, serial numbers -- the last four digits in an SSN -- run consecutively from 0001 through 9999.

California's State Swindlers

California's liberal government says the citizens don't save enough for the future. They want to pass a law that lets them take funds from your income and save it for you.

In reality, they want to raid the fund in the same way they raided the other pension funds.

If a bank did this, they'd send the bankers to prison!

Read more on this corrupt money-grab at Fox News.

Putting The 1960s Behind Us

Racial harms still exist, but the current forms may surprise you.

  Okay, let's talk about yesterday's Supreme Court ruling. My take is; "Affirmative Action" and other govt. interventions are only just when applied to current inequities.
  To force preferential treatment for discrimination of past generations, is 'court-ordered reckless vengeance!  The person or group seeking relief for wrongs, must identify the entities specifically responsible for the harm.
  The Supreme Court got it right when they declared yesterday, that current data must be used, rather than the findings of 40 years ago.  Racial harms still exist, but the current forms may surprise you.

McCain Tries To Sell Amnesty

A THESIS ON UNITING THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT

People of firm conviction are generally a noble group. Like any group, they occasionally have an individual whose behavior doesn't reflect well on the rest.
I'd rather have people of 'inconvenient' convictions working with me, than people whose only conviction is getting power. The professional political class often exploit all of us.
Ultimately it is the strength of convictions which bring the strongest reforms. The folks who brought the American Revolution were a very small and radical minority, at first.
The Republican party has generally adopted all the principles of the "Liberty Wing". So there isn't a mainstream rejection among the party base. It's the Republican elected officials who often violate the party principles.
As a known 'Social Conservative" I have found so much common ground with noble people in the Liberty Wing. We work hard together. I go to rallies they organize. They even seek my perspective so as to grow and relate to the rest of the conservative movement.
Often, a few of them make the mistaken notion that they are the only sect which truly believes in Liberty. I have to assert to them that Liberty Lovers exist throughout the broader conservative movement. The fact that James Dobson focuses so much effort on family-friendly policies, doesn't mean he isn't also passionate about restoring a solid monetary policy and ending the UN's influence in our American public policy & law.
The most difficult group to find consensus with might be those who gain monetarily from political connections. Money does corrupt and good leaders must be ever vigilant against it's power to hijack their initial values. But those who fall under the spell of power or money are no better than a band of pirates masquerading as an incumbents club. The Republican base must continually watch out for these instances and also be careful not to replace a bad leader with one who's worse.
We have before us a great opportunity for a political 'flanking maneuver'. We can limit big government and oppressive socialism by working as Liberty-Loving, Socially Conscious, Restorers of Prosperity.

A huge challenge for any movement is to acquire the money needed to advance an agenda. Some of those willing to fund a campaign are really just trying to leverage a greater personal kickback through the access their money gives them. We cannot allow them to hijack our nation's survival. But there are many good people of significant means who are looking for worthy messengers of reform. They love the nation and have hopes for her better future.