{Cross posted from dKos Social Security Defenders group. Some parts will be pretty familiar to AB readers} You may have to bear with me here. Because very few people have seriously examined what a solvent Social Security system would actually look like. One of those that has is (thankfully) Steve Goss, the Chief Actuary of […]
{Cross posted from dkos Social Security Defenders Group} If we back up a bit and examine Social Security absent the lenses of the various economic and ideological stakeholders, it is clearly not in crisis. But it does face challenges, or at least one challenge viewed three different ways. The challenge is stated pretty simply: under […]
Nevada Seeks to Cut Funds for Treating Gambling Addiction Snark? No it is too sad for that, somehow we have gotten to Reagan’s promised Land, Government is the Problem. Always. Still. But welcome to Vegas!
And for what it is worth I found this Obama-King Kong cartoon hilarious. Tasteless and unwittingly revealing of the Reichnut mind-set but funny. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/18/new-york-post-chimp-carto_n_167841.html But confirmation of my true feelings below the fold:
Why? Just because. Plus Dean was warning about some sort of housing bubble at the time. How nutty was that? Plus my best buddy just starting out on his pie: WaPO: WHAT CRISIS?: It Ain’t Broke, So No Need To Fix ItSunday, January 23, 2005; Page B02 By Mark Weisbrot and Dean Baker, The latest […]
It is an article of faith among many on the Left that the answer is easy: the majority on the Roberts Court is in the tank for the Republican Party. And within certain limits and with qualifications that is my view too. But the question today is WHICH Republican Party? The nativist libertarian leaning Christianist […]
Norwegian boy fends off wolves with Creed song He was listening to “Overcome” by Creed, an arguably Christian rock band, and apparently, the wolves were not fans. (Initial reports indicated Walter shooed the wolves away with a Megadeth song,) Ah yes the old Creed vs Megadeath conundrum. Throw in some Black Sabbath and we could […]
The Ryan Roadmap was introduced and then dropped into obscurity as Republicans simply ignored it and appararantly its author, the House Budget Committee Ranking Member Paul Ryan. Well that was then, today that is CHAIRMAN Paul Ryan and the official respondee to the SOTU plus the man who has unilateral control over budget levels this […]
Which though not stated so baldly is the clear conclusion of the following: Abdullah Toukan and Anthony Cordesman:Study on a Possible Israeli Strike on Iran’s Nuclear Development. The authors outline three different attack routes the Israelis could use, each having its own set of political and military problems, but the real missing piece is the […]
for the longest time the earliest Annual Report of the Social Security Trustees readily available was that of the second Report in 1942 and that only in a fairly clumsy PDF format that doesn’t allow my browser to cut and paste (though I can from most PDFs). But the fine people (no snark) at ssa.gov/history […]