COMMENTARY: Grading the candidates: the MA-05 debate part three: Entitlement...
Braude=”Alan Greenspan, former head of the Fed, wrote his book in the tub, he says. And that one of the main points he made, is that Medicare, in the age of the babyboomers, is the real budget buster,...
View ArticleThe Social Security “crisis” rears its ugly, Norquistian head. Don’t be fooled.
We all know that Barack Obama is looking for new and creative ways to go after Hillary Clinton — he’s said so himself. He has apparently decided that one of them is Social Security. You can read all...
View ArticleKrugman: Obama got punk’d on Social Security
Paul Krugman’s column is a must-read today. First, he quotes conventional wisdom on Social Security, which continues to boggle the mind: Mr. Russert: “Everyone knows Social Security, as it’s...
View ArticleReich defends Obama on Social Security
Just got the press release: Robert Reich defends Obama on the sacred cow of Social Security: I’m becoming increasingly concerned about the stridency and inaccuracy of charges in Iowa — especially...
View ArticleSocial Security = Ponzi Scheme – The Zombie That Will Not Die
The Globe today published a mercifully brief letter to the editor comparing Social Security to a Madoff-like Ponzi scheme. Since no one at the Globe seems to spend anytime using the internet as a...
View Article58 or under? Your Social Security is getting cut
if Obama’s guys have their way: Can These Men Fix the Deficit? Obama has appointed The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, a.k.a. The Social Security Commission, a.k.a. The Cat...
View ArticleDemocratic Candidates Must Stop Using Republican Talking Points
Last week a major effort was launched by various Democratic groups to prevent cuts in Social Security, in particular calls to raise the retirement age. A National Commission is expected to make...
View ArticleKeating Marks 75th Anniversary of Social Security by Reaffirming His...
Keating Campaign Launches New Social Security Ad Quincy, MASS. – On the eve of the 75th anniversary of Social Security, Bill Keating today reaffirmed his commitment to seniors by pledging to fight...
View ArticleHalliburton Gets $2 Billion Contract For Florida “Cardboard Condos”
Nearly two years in development, the new product, officially known as the Emergency Living Device, Experimental, Regular Length, Yard (ELDERLY), is a response to the 2014 privatization of the Social...
View ArticleAn Impending and Inevitable Train Wreck
In the event of a Republican takeover of one or both houses of Congress on November 2nd, it won’t be long before the Tea Party Movement and the G.O.P. will be involved in one or more train wrecks, some...
View ArticleOn Social Security Investment, Or, What About Chile?
“Of what avail are any laws, where money rules alone, Where Poverty can never win its cases? Detractors of the times, who bear the Cynic’s scrip, are known To often sell the truth, and...
View ArticleSocial Security: The War Begins Tuesday, And You Better Say Oh, No!
BIG MISTAKE MANY MAKE RELY ON HORN INSTEAD OF BRAKE BURMA SHAVE –Actual “Burma Shave” Message, 1945, from “Verse By The Side of the Road“, Frank Rowsome, Jr. So here’s the dish: a limited partnership...
View ArticleSocial Security: They Want To Cut, We Plan To Fight
He is always plotting and carrying out great enterprises, which have always kept his subjects bewildered and astonished, waiting to see what their outcome would be. And his deeds have followed one...
View ArticleThey don’t want social security – THEY WANT JOBS – hello! Hello? Anyone...
Mind the discouraged workers aren’t even counted and sure are too young for social security – THEY did not choose to “retire”. For far too many, finding the next job is about survival, folks, not what...
View ArticleWhat is a “middle class lifestyle” these days?
A live able wage for the working classes means: 1. You can rent a safe and sanitary apartment with heat, light, water, no leaks, functioning appliances, and sufficient space for you and your family....
View ArticleSocial Security: If The Rich Paid Taxes Like You And Me…Problem Solved
The possibility of victory can be a heavy millstone around the neck of any political candidate who might prefer, in his heart, to spend his main energies on a series of terrifying, whiplash assaults on...
View ArticleShame on Kerry
When I pointed out that this was blackmail, the man on the phone agreed and said that Kerry was trying to make the compromise “better”. When I pointed out that you can’t make the compromise...
View ArticleOn Shame As A Tactic, Or, Betsie Gallardo: She Won…And So Can You!
Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water. Yet for attacking the solid and strong, nothing is better; It has no equal. The weak can overcome the strong; The supple can overcome the...
View ArticleOn Contradiction, Or, Will Obama Lose An Argument With Himself?
“He who was prepared to help the escaping murderer or to embrace the impenitent thief, found, to the overthrow of all his logic, that he objected to the use of dynamite” –From “The Dynamiter“, by...
View ArticleHas the GOP become the party of Cain?
Sadly today's GOP appears to echo Cain, when he responded I am not my brother's keeper The parable holds today; in fact, unless we collectively care about and for one another, all of us suffer...
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