Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Social Security Early Accounting Operation


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The Issuing of Social Security numbers and the creation of earnings records on all Americans covered by Social Security was the largest bookeeping operation in the history of the world.

4 comments:

  1. That is certainly one job I would never want to have. Yikes!

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  2. Yeah, I second that. I'm sure today it wouldn't be such a big deal with computers and all, but when computers didn't exist...ouch

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  3. Talk about tedious. Obviously SS numbers are important & useful for tracking citzens for various reasons. However we must be aware of the dangers they are expose dto in various cases of ID theft.

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  4. Wow- with how high our birth rate is now- I bet that would be a job always in demand. But of course we have a computer to do all of the work now and we do not need people to the work.

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