by Dale Coberly DAMNED LIARS AND SOCIAL SECURITY There are liars, damned liars, and “non partisan experts.” The non partisan experts are expert liars, “non partisan” because that’s the best lie of all. A damned liar need not be an expert, but he is usually pretty clever at mixing “true” facts, or at least “facts […]
by Dale Coberly AARP vs. Social Security? Last week Huffington Post reported that AARP was embarking on a “Social Security and Medicare “listening tour” called “You’ve Earned a Say and We’re Listening.” Through “town halls, community conversations, bus tours and other events,” the influential organization promises to offer members a chance to speak out on […]
The post garnered only one comment, from kharris, who complained that the post was incomprehensible and asked whether it was intended as facetious, and whether I could give a Cliff’s Notes version of it. I can and did. I wrote: [The] post was not intended as facetious, although I’m sure it will be taken that […]
I caught a bit of Jennifer Granholm’s The War Room for 2/23/12. She was talking gasoline prices and had Ron Klain on for his ideas. He is a past chief of staff for Gore and Biden as VP’s. Mr. Klain also published his thought at Bloomberg2/20/12. This post is not about solving the rising gasoline […]
by Dale Coberly LES MISERABLES: SOCIAL SECURITYJavert And Evil From a message from the National Consumer Law Center (reference [email protected]): “It’s perfectly fine for a person who failed to pay their child support to end up penniless and living in their car, and to die that way.” – High Ranking U.S. Treasury Official, in response […]
by Dale Coberly SOCIAL SECURITY More How They Lie To Us David Brooks says in a column headlined Where Are the Liberals? Americans don’t hate government, but “believe the government has been captured by rent-seekers.” This is the disease that corrodes government at all times and in all places. As George F. Will wrote in […]
by Dale Coberly SOCIAL SECURITYHow They Lie To Us The Wall Street Journal in the article Newtitlement State is unhappy with Newt Gingrich’s plan to privatize Social Security. Not only does it know that “privatization” failed when Bush offered it to the country, but they understand that most elected Republicans have distanced themselves from private-account carveouts […]
by Dale Coberly SOCIAL SECURITY AND BRAIN DAMAGE Liberals Destroy Social Security While Claiming Victory Republicans Cry “Please Not the Briar Patch, Br’er ‘Bama, please, please!” Robert Kuttner, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/obama-social-security_b_1178904.html tells us that Obama has won a great victory by getting the Republicans to extend the payroll tax cut; SS “will be made whole from transfers […]
by Linda Beale Payroll Tax Cut -Keystone vote up Saturday at 9 in Senate Apparently, Senate leaders on Friday ironed out the difficulty between the GOP and the Democratic party. The GOP got most everything it wanted, and the Dems got just barely more than nothing. That’s the way “negotiating” seems to go in the Congress […]
by Dale Coberly Social Security…Hearts and Minds Tom Margenau wrote an essay about the payroll tax holiday in The National Memo Is Your Tax Holiday Gift A Lump of Coal? His essay seemed to me to illustrate one of the problems with the Social Security “debate” as it has been constructed. Margenau describes himself as […]