Mind the discouraged workers aren't even counted and sure are too young for social security - THEY did not choose to "retire". For far too many, finding the next job is about survival, folks, not what age to collect social security. … [Read more...]
Social Security: They Want To Cut, We Plan To Fight
He is always plotting and carrying out great enterprises, which have always kept his subjects bewildered and astonished, waiting to see what their outcome would be. And his deeds have followed one another so closely that he has never left … [Read more...]
Social Security: The War Begins Tuesday, And You Better Say Oh, No!
BIG MISTAKE MANY MAKE RELY ON HORN INSTEAD OF BRAKE BURMA SHAVE --Actual "Burma Shave" Message, 1945, from "Verse By The Side of the Road", Frank Rowsome, Jr. So here's the dish: a limited partnership corporation called The Blackstone … [Read more...]
On Social Security Investment, Or, What About Chile?
"Of what avail are any laws, where money rules alone, Where Poverty can never win its cases? Detractors of the times, who bear the Cynic's scrip, are known To often sell the truth, … [Read more...]
An Impending and Inevitable Train Wreck
In the event of a Republican takeover of one or both houses of Congress on November 2nd, it won't be long before the Tea Party Movement and the G.O.P. will be involved in one or more train wrecks, some of which could be pretty dramatic. … [Read more...]
Halliburton Gets $2 Billion Contract For Florida “Cardboard Condos”
Nearly two years in development, the new product, officially known as the Emergency Living Device, Experimental, Regular Length, Yard (ELDERLY), is a response to the 2014 privatization of the Social Security program and the 2016 stock … [Read more...]
Keating Marks 75th Anniversary of Social Security by Reaffirming His Opposition to Raising the Reti
Keating Campaign Launches New Social Security Ad Quincy, MASS. - On the eve of the 75th anniversary of Social Security, Bill Keating today reaffirmed his commitment to seniors by pledging to fight efforts to raise the retirement age. … [Read more...]
Democratic Candidates Must Stop Using Republican Talking Points
Last week a major effort was launched by various Democratic groups to prevent cuts in Social Security, in particular calls to raise the retirement age. A National Commission is expected to make recommendations after the election and … [Read more...]
58 or under? Your Social Security is getting cut
if Obama's guys have their way: Can These Men Fix the Deficit? Obama has appointed The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, a.k.a. The Social Security Commission, a.k.a. The Cat Food Commission, to solve the dire … [Read more...]
Social Security = Ponzi Scheme – The Zombie That Will Not Die
The Globe today published a mercifully brief letter to the editor comparing Social Security to a Madoff-like Ponzi scheme. Since no one at the Globe seems to spend anytime using the internet as a resource, they could not have known that … [Read more...]