social security

One important fact about the 60 Plus Association’s move into the health care debate is that from 1995 through really the end of the Bush administration, its big cause was support for Social Security privatization. It did a lot of blocking and tackling when President Bush pushed for privatization in 2005, and it kept on [...]

In the next few decades, promised federal spending threatens to drown the U.S. economy. It could make the financial bailout seem cheap.

Sen. John McCain came into the second presidential debate tonight in Nashville in a position of weakness — trailing nationally and slipping in the swing states. He was looking for what the pundits refer to as a “game-changer,” a big win that stops Sen. Barack Obama’s forward momentum and recasts the race in more favorable [...]

Yesterday I mentioned, randomly, how attacking Democratic presidential candidates on guns is usually a ploy.
The Feds won’t take away people’s guns, no matter who runs the White House, because there is a super-majority in Congress to block such efforts.
Attacking on guns, like Social Security, plays up an improbable fear, I argued. But it turns out [...]