Bill Owens is a journalist, who has worked at “60 Minutes,” the finest and most venerable journalistic program in the United States, for 24 years, and for the last six as its executive producer.
He has been forced out of “60 Minutes” by the insatiable greed of Shari Redstone, who has demanded that Bill Owens bend the knee to Donald Trump.
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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When Social Security was set up, the oldest American still alive at the time was born around 1825-1835.
Now the question is, should taxpayer dollars go to hunting down the death certificates for people without a death date in the Social Security system who fall into these extreme ages?
I'd say no.
Yet the database should be cleaned up. I'd argue that this is an opportunity for volunteers, citizen genealogists and archivists, to be recruited by the Social Security Administration (and at the prodding of DOGE) to have some fun and make for a better system. Heck, recruit Henry Louis Gates Jr. as a public advisor! Other agencies such as the National Weather Service have volunteers, so why not?