Wed 1/29/2025
Political Shenigans of the 1970s
Wilbur Mills was a prominent Congressman who took up with a former, uh adult entertainment star, whose career ended amid alcohol and her dip in the Tidal Basin.
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the reaon for the increase in SS payments is that Mills trying for a Presidential run, got SS payments tied to the Consumer Price Index. The CPI has a large fractal in morgage interest rates. Ironically most SS recipients live in owned homes and so SS payments soared in the 1970s as interest rates rose.
Professor Elam 
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