Start Tackling The Pension Problem Now
The politicians in Washington rarely let the important get ahead of the urgent and expensive. The spending spree they’ve engaged in to offset the economic impact of the coronavirus lockdown…
The Fallacies Underlying the Warren Social Security Plan
Elizabeth Warren, U.S. senator from Massachusetts and candidate for president, recently released a Social Security plan that would exacerbate many of the program’s existing problems while also creating several new…
Social Security Trust Funds to Be Depleted in 17 Years
by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds will be depleted in the next 17 years, according to the Social Security…
Social Security Paid Dead Government Workers $1.7 Million
by Elizabeth Harrington • Washington Free Beacon The Social Security Administration has paid dead federal workers $1.7 million in recent years, with the deceased receiving benefits an average of seven…
Another Day, Another Obama Plan
President Obama is ignoring the first rule of holes — when you’re in one, stop digging. But no, after putting forth a $447 billion so-called jobs plan (which was really…
Should President Obama Moderate?
by Bryan Björnson In his Jan. 24, 2011 column E.J. Dionne asks if Pres. Obama should retreat or spend the next two years consolidating the gains Obama has made. My question…