Guest post: Crisis in public education…RJs newsletter
…a private in the U.S. Army…it wasnt until the state of the union, when obama invoked the “sputnik challenge” metaphor, that education was again in the spotlight…and even ben bernanke…
…a private in the U.S. Army…it wasnt until the state of the union, when obama invoked the “sputnik challenge” metaphor, that education was again in the spotlight…and even ben bernanke…
by Linda Beale GOP deficit-reduction hype used in ideological “values” war? crossposted with Ataxingmatter There is concerted effort to portray Social Security as ruining the country by being a significant…
…mentioned that the piece contained a February 2009 clip of Obama promising that his final first-term budget would halve the deficit that his administration inherited. I saw the video because…
…Obama has no business proposing cuts to Social Security benefits as part of a purported deficit reduction package. Social Security is not a deficit driver: it is a social insurance…
Health Care Thoughts: Quality Commission PPACA (aka Obamacare) required a commission on health care quality. The interagency working group released a report late last week. A PDF of the report…
…interest makes up the total Social Security Surplus which is then combined with a General Fund surplus/deficit to create a Unified Budget surplus/deficit, making large SS cash surpluses a good…
…the Chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission as a speaker. I can not imagine a single institution in the US that is more anti-free market than the Texas Railroad Commission….
…Positions, Social Security Board 1936-46 Chief Actuary, SSA 1947-1980 Member, National Commission on Social Security 1978-81 Deputy Commissioner, SSA 1981-82 Executive Director, National Commission on Social Security Reform 1982-83 That…
…Kappel Commission to come up with ideas for transforming and reorganizing the Post Office Department. The commission was staffed largely by businessman and corporate leaders like its chair Fred Kappel,…
…when President Reagan’s Commission on Privatization submitted its report Privatization: Toward More Effective Government, and outsourcing came into fashion across the spectrum of government agencies. The commission recommended that the…