Dicator Donald….DDD – The Devastaing Dictator of Doom – is talking about privatizing the Post Office. How about Social Security? How about combining the two and creating a Constitutional Cyber Community? The CCC.
What I see is Patriot Parcel Buses parked in front of most Post Offices in major American Cities. These buses will be donated by NATO Nations. Onboard will be computers and desks where Seniors can connect with other Government Agencies of Love, that have cast out the Invading Virus of Hate, launched by the richest man on earth, who makes money off his position with the DDD – who makes deals with The Prince of Arabia out on the golf course.
We the Cyber Postal People are allowed to make the best deal WE can!. The Founding Fathers gave us The U.S. Post Office – and roads leading to the Post Office! Our PPBs have a right to traverse theses roads, and park in front of a Post Office anywhere in America for a written and agreed length of time.
Our PPBs will help everyone with mail-in voting!
Our PPBs will bring non-perishable food to many cities and small towns – for the sake of NATO Children. Diapers and baby formula will be gifts from our European Allies. Once a month a registered nurse will be on board to distribute medications, insulin and vaccine shots.
The CCC will distribute free phones that have a NATO AID app that will carry MSNBC around the clock, and broadcast bulletins important to the survival and well-being of Americas most vulnerable. An example of a good bulletin is the form Attorney General Kris Mayes launched that allows seniors to create a paper trail of their complaints in regard to cutbacks in the Department of Social Security.
The DDD just cut government funding to Cornell and Princeton. I see Seniors of the CCC going into these colleges and having free access to the University Libraires, and conference rooms and auditoriums in order to spread our message. I encourage young students to assist Seniors in navigating cyberspace.
I began working on this post ninety minutes ago, on April 9, 2025. Contact Mayes and support her efforts. Let her know you want her Patriotic Mission in your town.
How many Seniors own large RVs and Mobile Homes they can not afford to put gas in as the DDD diminishes their spending power – with glee and profanity? These RVs can be donated to the CCC, and, used as PVB..
Patriotic Volunteer Buses
John Presco of the COCC
- Jump to essay-1Articles of Confederation of 1781, art. IX (
The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of . . . establishing or regulating post offices from one State to another, throughout all the United States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing through the same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office . . .
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- Jump to essay-32 The Records of the Federal Convention 308 (Max Farrand ed., 1911) (August 16, 1787). According to James Madison:
The power of establishing post-roads, must in every view be a harmless power; and may perhaps, by judicious management, become productive of great public conveniency. Nothing which tends to facilitate the intercourse between the States, can be deemed unworthy of the public care.
The Federalist No. 42 (James Madison).
Attorney General Mayes Launches Webpage to Report Social Security Disruptions
Monday, March 31, 2025
PHOENIX – Attorney General Kris Mayes today announced a new webpage her office is launching to collect reports of Social Security issues.
“I am highly concerned that Elon Musk and the Trump Administration will take a wrecking ball to the Social Security Administration,” said Attorney General Mayes “We need any Arizonan who experiences any disruption to their hard-earned Social Security to report the issue immediately to my office. I refuse to let an authoritarian administration override the rule of law and destroy critical services that millions of Arizonans rely on.”
Following recent reporting of potentially disastrous changes in the Social Security Administration—from cutting 12% of the Social Security workforce to potentially gutting its phone services and requiring in-person check-ins while simultaneously closing field offices—the Attorney General is creating a webpage to allow Arizonans to report any disruption they experience to their earned benefits. At this time, Arizonans should be receiving their Social Security checks as normal, but we are starting to see reports of disruptions.
Attorney General Kris Mayes continues to hold the federal government accountable for the illegal and unconstitutional actions by President Trump and Elon Musk, including reversing the devastating impacts with court orders. The Arizona Attorney General’s office has filed the following lawsuits against the Trump administration to protect Arizonans: protecting Birthright Citizenship and the 14th amendment, blocking the federal funding freeze, stopping DOGE’s attacks on privacy, protecting medical and public health research, stopping Elon Musk’s unconstitutional power grab, employees, and protecting Arizona students and schools.
Arizonans experiencing a disruption in the social security payments or services can report it here:
https://www.azag.gov/socialsecurity
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President Donald Trump is once again talking about privatizing the US Postal Service. It’s an idea that has employees and major users of the mail very nervous.
The 250-year old service is an independent government organization that is older than the country itself. With billions in annual losses — a $9.5 billion loss in the most recent fiscal year — coming up with a way to make it more efficient and stem the red ink would seem to be a no brainer.
At a time when the use of first class letters continues to slide due to emails, online bill paying and other electronic communications, the USPS would seem to be less important than ever. But it’s actually as important as ever, crucial for delivery of prescription drugs, mail-in election ballots and online purchases. And privatizing it could mean the end of guaranteed mail service to every American address, leaving many rural customers without the deliveries they have come to depend upon.
Even those who are critical of the level of service and the cost of postage charged to major business customers say privatizing the service is not the answer.
“People are used to what they have. Six days a week, every address served,” said Michael Plunkett, CEO of the Association for Postal Commerce, which represents companies in the mailing and shipping industry, including pharmacies, banks, catalog publishers and online retailers. “Anything that severely disrupts that will be extremely unpopular. People are generally happy with the kind of service they get from the postal service. Certainly the quality in the last year or so has been subpar, but overall the public likes what they get.”
He points to USPS performance statistics. That data shows, among other things, first class mail that was delivered within two days 99% of the time as recently as 2013 now gets there that quickly less than 94% of the time.
But on Friday, Trump said he wants to see changes at the agency, as well as an oversight role for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, even though the service is an independent agency that is overseen by a board of governors, not any cabinet secretary.
What Would Privatized Social Security Mean for Americans?
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One of the largest, oldest, and most popular U.S. government programs, Social Security has outlasted several efforts to make it smaller by cutting benefits and the payroll taxes funding them. Several of those failed reform proposals had a common element: the full or partial privatization of the system.
Social Security pools payroll tax receipts from current workers and uses them to pay benefits to current retirees, investing any surplus solely in special debt securities issued by the U.S. government.12
Self-directed retirement accounts would replace Social Security taxes and benefits to some extent in a privatized retirement savings system. Taxpayers could invest a portion of their payroll contributions in a separate account for their own benefit, and the account’s value would fluctuate with market prices of investments that might include equity index funds.3
Key Takeaways
- Social Security has come under increasing scrutiny amid a long-term funding shortfall.
- Privatization would replace the pay-as-you-go Social Security system in whole or in part with private accounts benefiting contributors in retirement.
- Privatization advocates argue that it would increase the savings rate, produce better investment returns, and result in higher benefits for retirees.
- Critics say it would favor wealthy Americans, increase investment risks and costs, and require large additional expenditures on the transition.
- Past efforts to introduce limited privatization have failed due to a lack of popular support.
Privatization Pros and Cons
Proponents of privatization say the Social Security trust funds don’t generate sufficient returns. They argue that privatizing the system would fix that, delivering higher benefits for participants.3
Those who oppose privatization counter that it would subject participants to unwarranted investment risks and costs and that it would cost too much to transition from the old system to a new one. Critics also contend that privatization undermines the very principle of the social safety net and the guarantee that it provides older people.4
Polls show that Americans are well aware of Social Security’s funding challenges and they’re skeptical that they’ll collect all the benefits they would be entitled to under existing rules. But they remain opposed to dramatic changes in the program.56
Some polling suggests that Americans oppose Social Security privatization despite the claims that letting workers save and invest on their own behalf might improve their returns. Other polls have come to the opposite conclusion in the past.78
Some skeptics may simply prefer to not rock the boat. Others are passionate defenders of Social Security’s design as an insurance fund with dedicated funding from tax revenue and a benefits formula geared toward alleviating poverty among lower-income retirees.9
For whatever reason, campaigns on behalf of Social Security privatization have tended to stall when lawmakers gauged the reaction of their constituents.
77 million
The projected number of Americans who will be 65 and older in 2035, up from 61 million in 2023.10
Today’s Social Security System
Payroll tax receipts are immediately available under the existing system to fund the benefits paid out to current retirees, along with interest income and any accumulated reserves.
Social Security preserves a link between career earnings and the size of the Social Security benefit, but it allows lower-income beneficiaries to receive benefits in excess of their contributions. The formula keeps millions of older Americans out of poverty.
But Social Security’s main trust fund is on pace to run out of reserves in 2033, according to a 2024 report by the system’s trustees. The program will only have enough income to pay about 79% of scheduled benefits after that year.11
Fast Fact
These projected statistics apply to the OASI trust fund, not including the disability benefits trust fund (OASDI). When combined, these trust funds are expected to run out of reserves in 2035 and have only enough income to pay about 83% of scheduled benefits.11
The growing number of retirees relative to the number of workers supporting them caused Social Security to pay out more in benefits than its tax receipts for the first time in decades in 2021. Annual deficits are projected to grow rapidly going forward.
How did this happen? Life expectancy has increased. And ongoing retirements by baby boomers, an unusually large generation, have aggravated the problem. The number of workers supporting each Social Security beneficiary is expected to decline from 2.7 in 2023 to 2.4 in 2035.10
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The system would be left dependent entirely on ongoing tax receipts if Social Security were to run out of reserves.
History of Privatization Plans
Proposals to replace some or all of government-run Social Security with private retirement savings plans have been around for a long time, grounded in the conviction that there’s nothing the public sector can do that the private sector can’t do better. Such efforts gained momentum during the late 1990s, helped along by the rapid growth of the financial industry and a historic bull market in stocks that made Social Security’s interest income from government debt look increasingly lackluster.
President Bill Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich reportedly agreed in 1998 to pursue Social Security reforms that were to include government-funded personal retirement savings accounts for workers.12 Clinton proposed “investing a small portion” of the increased government funding for Social Security “in the private sector” in his 1999 State of the Union address. Funding was to come from government budget surpluses that Clinton said would persist for the next 25 years.13
A presidential sex scandal and impeachment followed, scuttling bipartisan cooperation on Social Security.14 The budget surpluses of 1998 through 2001 had already given way to mounting deficits following the adoption of the tax cuts he advocated by the time President George W. Bush revived the Social Security privatization effort in 2005.1516
The Bush proposal for personal retirement accounts consequently did not preserve the Social Security system’s funding, allowing workers to divert payroll tax contributions to the private accounts instead before repaying the government, with interest, out of their future benefits.15
Bush spent months campaigning for the plan after his re-election, but it proved steadily more unpopular in polls until he finally had to acknowledge that his plan did not address the system’s funding shortfall. Republicans in Congress never pursued the issue.17
How Privatization Might Work
Privatization is the transfer of a government-owned business, operation, or property to a non-government party in the private sector. In the context of Social Security, privatization would allow workers to save toward their own future benefits, with many of the proposals retaining some form of partial government funding and benefit guarantees.18
Fast Fact
Interest in privatization plans stems from the desire to reduce the size of the government and the financial challenges confronting public retirement systems around the globe.
Chile became the example frequently cited by privatization proponents after successfully privatizing a failing public system in 1981. But Chileans’ trust in their pension system plunged following the financial crisis of 2008 when funds in the system lost about 20% on average. Public retirement benefits in Chile remain inadequate for a significant proportion of the population as a result of insufficient contributions, increased life expectancy, and years of poor investment returns.19
Privatizing the U.S. Social Security system would involve diverting some or all of the mandated payroll tax contributions into private accounts managed by contributors for their own eventual benefit. Many such proposals would make benefits derived from such accounts inheritable.20
Workers could have the option to increase their contributions to retire earlier or to increase their payouts in retirement. Proponents have argued that the accumulation of assets in private retirement accounts would lead to a big rise in the savings rate, making it easier to afford the burden of a large retired population.4
Attorney General Mayes Sues Trump Administration to Protect Libraries and Museums
Friday, April 4, 2025
PHOENIX – Attorney General Mayes today joined a coalition of 20 other attorneys general in suing the Trump administration to stop the dismantling of three federal agencies that provide services and funding supporting public libraries and museums. In March, the Trump administration issued an Executive Order that would dismantle federal agencies created by Congress that collectively provide hundreds of millions of dollars for programs in every state.
“In communities across Arizona, libraries aren’t just a place to borrow books—they’re a lifeline,” said Attorney General Mayes. “From high-speed internet access to job training and after-school programs, our libraries rely on federal support to serve the Arizonans who depend on and benefit from them. Stripping that support away will widen the divide between the haves and the have-nots—and would especially devastate youth literacy programs that help Arizona’s kids learn to read, grow, and succeed. I’ll keep fighting to ensure elite authoritarian politicians in Washington don’t rip away critical resources from Arizonans.”
As a result of this Executive Order, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) – one of the targeted agencies – has placed almost its entire staff on administrative leave and will cut hundreds of grants for state libraries and museums. The lawsuit filed by Attorney General Mayes and the coalition seeks to stop the targeted destruction of the IMLS and two other agencies targeted in the administration’s EO that millions of Americans rely on, especially those in underserved communities.
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes detailed the effects the cuts would have on Arizonans:
“Stepping into a library is like shaking hands with an old friend. It’s reliable, steady, and filled with trusted wisdom,” said Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. “This lawsuit is for Arizona’s 3 million library card holders, who in 2023 alone visited the library 14 million times.”
In Arizona, IMLS funding is vital to statewide initiatives and direct support for local libraries. The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records (LAPR) is still assessing just how deep the impact of funding cuts will go, but the consequences are already clear: contracts have been terminated for LAPR staff who deliver Digital Navigator services, a support that many communities rely on.
IMLS funds cover some or all the salaries for key LAPR staff who run these programs and ensure they reach the people who need them. Since 2020, the Arizona State Library has stewarded over $18 million in IMLS funds to preserve our state’s history and expand access to essential services. These dollars do not pay for base library operations but sustain specific, high-impact programming.
In 2024 alone, the Library Development division managed over $3,800,000 in Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) initiatives and projects through IMLS to support programs including:
- Access to Electronic Resources: Collaborative digital collections, databases, and eZines across the 15 county library systems
- Arizona Memory Project: Online access to historical records from Arizona’s archives, libraries, and museums
- Arizona Reading Program: Literacy development programming for all ages
- Connect Arizona: Free broadband and tech support through trained Digital Navigators
- Youth Services: Informal learning and educational programming for school-aged children
- Summer Library Institute: Professional development for staff from small and rural libraries
- Legal Resources: Access to state legal and legislative history materials
- E-rate Support: Assistance for libraries applying for discounted internet and telecommunications services
In 2024, IMLS invested $180 million in libraries nationwide under its Grants to States Program. The administration’s action will threaten hundreds of library staff across the country that provide essential services to their communities.
“This is nothing less than an assault on the preservation of Arizona’s history and the education of future generations,” said Attorney General Mayes. “Slashing funding for our libraries and museums is a short-sighted and destructive act by an authoritarian government that shows no regard for the pursuit of knowledge, truth, or our shared heritage. These institutions safeguard the stories of who we are—and who we aspire to be. Tearing them down will do real harm to our democracy.”
Attorney General Mayes and the coalition argue that the Executive Order violates the Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act by eliminating the programs of agencies without any regard for the laws and regulations that govern each source of federal funding. The coalition argues that the president cannot decide to unilaterally override laws governing federal spending, and that this Executive Order unconstitutionally overrides Congress’s power to decide how federal funds are spent.
Attorney General Mayes joins this lawsuit is led by the attorneys general of New York and Rhode Island. Also joining the lawsuit are the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.
A copy of the complaint is available here.
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