Opposing the American Death Panel
Body: Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson Co-Directors of Social Security Works have written an article called “Has Obama created a Social Security 'death panel'? In the article they raise questions about...
View ArticleThe Right Message on the Catfood Commission
Body: [OK, I'm de-sticky-ing this at lets's implicit request. --lambert][I'm leaving this sticky for the super comments thread, where contirbutors are doing what the old school blogosphere excelled at...
View ArticleWhich Would You Rather Cut: Social Security, or Interest for Foreign...
Body: Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, the Co-Chairs of “the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform,” would have us believe that a deficit and debt crisis threatening the fiscal future...
View ArticleWhich Party Poses the Real Risk to Social Security’s Future?
Body: ByMarshall AuerbackHint: it’s not Republicans.Social Security remains one of the greatest achievements of the Democratic Party since its creation 75 years ago. Although Republicans have...
View ArticleTake Out the Catfood Commission and Get On to the Real Work
Body: This is the first of a number of posts on the Catfood Commission's latest travesty: the Co-Chair's Proposal. The proposal begins with statements about “Our Guiding Principles and Values.” I'll...
View ArticleBill Mitchell on the Co-Chairs' Proposal
Body: I blogged on the opening slide of the Catfood Commission Co-Chairs' Proposal just a couple of days ago, so when I checked out BillyBlog, as I do almost everyday, last night, I was particularly...
View ArticleCo-ordinated Around the Wrong Thing
Body: Yesterday, R. J. Eskow remarked:We expected to see an all-out assault on Social Security and progressive taxation in November, and we expected it to come under the banner of "deficit reduction."...
View ArticleWall Of Shame
Body: By Warren Mosler (Reprinted from Moslereconomics.com with the Express Permission of the Author)Unsustainable Budget Threatens NationMarch 24 (Politico) — Repeated battles over the 2011 budget are...
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