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That lovable cuddly senior Democrat, Senator Harry Reid, is still determined to give President Bush exactly what he wants in terms of telecom immunity. That is to say, our Harry thinks it is a wonderfully excellent idea for Congress to decree that the telecom companies which broke the law by agreeing to violate the [...]
*I just realized that this image (from a prior Social Security post) is now totally obsolete. Shame, that.
Beat the Press:
The Wall Street Journal told readers today that it would take a 16 percent increase in Social Security taxes to make the program solvent over its 75-year planning period, according to the SS trustees. Most [...]
In 2005 I spent a lot of time, too much time actually, writing about Social Security and the President’s dishonest and misguided attempt to gut and privatize one of the most popular and successful programs in this country’s history. But George W. Bush had just won reelection and made “reform” his top priority, so [...]
The President’s Social Security roadshow continued this week with a pre-screened, Stepford audience, this time in Rochester, NY:
Tickets allowing lucky audience members inside to hear the president at the school were colored red, blue or gold.
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James Bock, 12, of Livonia, Livingston County, and five members of his family learned they had “golden” tickets, which mean [...]
In a recent mandatory disclosure, we learn that:
The President reported having at least $4.95 million in Treasury notes…
Or are those notes just worthless pieces of paper like the Social Security trust fund?
Back in February, at a Florida stop on his Social Security misinformation tour where he abused the English language as if it was a piñata, the President took a question from an attendee:
Q: I do have a question. I’m on Social Security.
THE PRESIDENT: Right.
Q: And I’m disabled, and I just wondered if there’s going to [...]
After 60 days traveling the country and misleading fawning, hand-picked audiences about a Social Security privatization plan that he hasn’t yet provided details for, 10% fewer Americans support the President on Social Security now than did two months ago. Two main concerns persist, and last night’s prime-time press conference did nothing to change that [...]
After five months of doom-laden projections, important file cabinets, misleading advertisements, antique cars, pre-screened “town meetings” and unfortunate terms such as “flat bust”, the drive to reform Social Security is finally moving from moving from conjecture to an actual plan. On Tuesday the Senate Finance Committee will start hearings aimed at eventually producing some sort [...]
Civilization is so littered with failure that those who enjoy even a fleeting measure of success are usually afforded wide latitude in subsequent endeavors. I’m permanently fascinated with people’s responses to victory and defeat, whether in politics, business, entertainment or life itself.
In 2000, George W. Bush ran for President on a very [...]
“These pieces of paper are as worthless as my soul.”
A while back, we discussed the importance of the Social Security trust fund and why defaulting on it would be a very bad idea. If you haven’t read it already, take a minute to learn why default would rank very high on the list of [...]
