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To: SmoothSail who wrote (376230)8/3/2010 10:40:34 AM
From: Alan Smithee  Respond to of 793964
 
Yet today, your social security number is pegged to everything. Why were they willing to give up more for nothing in return?

I recall a time (the 60s?) when merchants would want you to put a SSN on checks before they would accept them.