Profiles

Staten Island once voted 2-to-1 to leave New York City. The Manhattan overlords ignored the vote. But Staten Island would be better off as a separate city, and the same holds true for Brooklyn and Queens. 

The Social Security program will have to be either inflated away with increasingly worthless dollars or Congress will have to intervene to cut benefits. 

Social Security has been a money-losing mess for decades, and it's a major drain on private sector saving and investment.

The movement for alternative money is the result of the history of government monetary mismanagement.