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Category Archives: Social Security
I Would Like to Thank Obsessive Republicans for Saving Social Security From Obama
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Then it winds up on TMZ. Or something. With whispers of impeachment in the air, things are starting to resemble the Clinton era a little bit. What many forgot (or never … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatives, Fucking Morons, Social Security
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The Grand Bargain Betrayal: Obama Lied to Rank-and-File Democrats on a Core Issue
I’m not naive about politicians. They will typically attempt to have their cake and eat it too on most issues. They will make ‘committed non-committals’ to leave themselves to maneuver. But a cardinal rule of politics is that when you … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Social Security
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A Judge Saved Us From Obama’s Policy Towards Plan B. Maybe One Can Do Something About His Assault on Plan C?
Probably not, but one can hope. To use a phrase. The good news is that a federal judge–a Republican appointee no less–overturned the Obama Administration’s craven and cowardly stance on Plan B, allowing emergency contraception to be sold over the … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatives, Democrats, Social Security
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Why Abandoning the Platinum Coin Option Worries Me
If you haven’t heard, over the weekend, both the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department ruled out using the platinum coin option to work around the debt ceiling hostage taking by the Republicans. I hope I’m wrong, but I think … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatives, Democrats, Social Security, We're Really Fucked
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What the Social Security Debate Is Really About
In the midst of all of the discussion involving debt ceilings, fiscal cliffs, and potential, minor long-term budgetary problems based on unrealistic assumptions, it’s worth remembering what this debate is really about. Mike Lux (boldface mine): When I was a … Continue reading
Posted in Basic Human Decency, Social Security
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Note to Krugman: The Role of the Public Intellectual Is to Speak Truth to Power, Not to Apologize For Power’s Misuse
Like many who actually don’t think devil-take-the-hindmost is good public policy, I’m incredibly disappointed in this post by NY Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman. This is not hard. This is not “agonizing.” Quite simply, it is indecent. It should … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Progressives, Social Security
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The Asymmetry of ‘Shared Sacrifice’: You Can’t Have Skin in the Game When You’ve Been Cut to the Bone
As all of our artificial fiscal crises reach full screech, you’ll be hearing a lot about ‘shared sacrifice’, the notion that we all have to pitch in and solve these (relatively) trivial problems. The problem is that some people have … Continue reading
The Propaganda of Sacrifice
Over the last few years, it has become fashionable for neo-liberals to blather on about ‘shared sacrifice’: the rich will have to pay a bit more in taxes, while the middle class and the impoverished will face cuts they simply … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Social Security
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A Way to Keep Social Security ‘Solvent’
While the government could, at any time, decide to deficit spend to maintain full Social Security benefits in roughly twenty-five years, if CBO estimates are to believed (and they should be taken with a boulder of salt), Social Security will … Continue reading
Democrats Beware: Americans Hate Austerity Policies
George Zornick points us to this figure from a polling report by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research for Democracy Corps and the Campaign for America’s Future: What is going unsaid is that the Social Security fix is simple (albeit probably unnecessary … Continue reading
Posted in Social Security, Taxes
