{"id":153169,"date":"2026-05-01T03:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/153169\/the-numbers-dont-lie-if-i-had-invested-my-social-security-in-the-sp-500-id-have-4-million-is-the-system-broken\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:03:50","slug":"the-numbers-dont-lie-if-i-had-invested-my-social-security-in-the-sp-500-id-have-4-million-is-the-system-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/153169\/the-numbers-dont-lie-if-i-had-invested-my-social-security-in-the-sp-500-id-have-4-million-is-the-system-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The numbers don\u2019t lie\u2019: If I had invested my Social Security in the S&amp;P 500 I\u2019d have $4 million. Is the system broken?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u201cI do better than many citizens because I\u2019ve contributed at the highest level.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI do better than many citizens because I\u2019ve contributed at the highest level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2012],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livecrudeoiltraderoomresults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}