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LES MISERABLES: SOCIAL SECURITY

{ Posted on Feb 08 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
by Dale Coberly LES MISERABLES: SOCIAL SECURITY Javert And Evil From a message from the National Consumer Law Center (reference msaunders@nclc.org): "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 ...Read More »

Angry Bear 2012-01-31 14:36:00

{ Posted on Jan 31 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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 ...Read More »

SOCIAL SECURITY… How They Lie To Us

{ Posted on Jan 27 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
by Dale Coberly SOCIAL SECURITY How 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, ...Read More »

SOCIAL SECURITY AND BRAIN DAMAGE

{ Posted on Jan 18 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
Categories : All, Angry Bear, social security
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 ...Read More »

Payroll Tax Cut -Keystone vote up Saturday at 9 in Senate

{ Posted on Dec 17 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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 ...Read More »

Angry Bear 2011-12-17 06:00:00

{ Posted on Dec 17 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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 ...Read More »

SOCIAL SECURITY AIN’T BROKE

{ Posted on Nov 12 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
by Dale CoberlySOCIAL SECURITY AIN'T BROKEA Reply to Linda BealeI want to take advantage of Linda Beale's essay "Social Security: It Ain't Broke Unless China is too" to make some points of my own. I want to be clear ...Read More »

The right’s smoke and mirrors scam about Social Security–it ain’t broke (unless China is too)

{ Posted on Nov 12 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
by Linda Beale The right's smoke and mirrors scam about Social Security--it ain't broke (unless China is too) We've noted in these postings the growing inequality between rich and the rest of us in America, and that is the ...Read More »

Three-Card Monte (Spring 2004)

{ Posted on Nov 03 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
Angry Bear archives reminds us of the longstanding strategies embedded in the current political debate, and trial balloons of possible current Super Committee proposals November 22, 2011. The Social Security surplus as a significant amount of money is recent, in ...Read More »

WHAT KOTLIKOFF (REALLY) SAID

{ Posted on Oct 17 2011 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
by Dale CoberlyWHAT KOTLIKOFF (REALLY) SAIDLarry Kotlikoff responded to my post in comments (Social Security: It’s Just Math). by saying that I (coberly) “wrote quite a lot about something I [Kotlikoff] didn't really say.” He has a point. ...Read More »