Archive for February, 2007
It’s a matter of priorities…
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007by Barbara B. Kennelly, President/CEO (bio)President Bush’s ongoing campaign to convince Americans we “can’t afford” our aging population continues with new claims of economic gloom and doom…unless we cut Social Security. We should not confuse the fact that there will be more retirees in the future with the notion that benefits are too high and [...]
A Contrarian View
Monday, February 26th, 2007New York actuary, David Langer, adds his voice to the chorus of others like economist Dean Baker who’ve tried and tried to provide some desperately needed perspective in the “entitlement reform” campaign. The Christian Science Monitor wrote today about Langer’s view that now is the time to improve benefits…not cut them. “The New York actuary’s [...]
Fiscal Wake-up Tour
Sunday, February 25th, 2007Here’s a letter to the editor Barbara wrote after reading the Boston Globe editorial on the “Fiscal Wake-up Tour”. Fiscal prioritiesFebruary 25, 2007 If we’re really going to have an “honest discussion” about our nation’s current budget mess, as suggested in Scot Lehigh’s Feb. 16 op-ed, “Fiscal wake-up tour’s inconvenient truth,” those leading the discussion [...]
Baucus says "No thanks" to WH nominee
Thursday, February 15th, 2007Alex Wayne with Congressional Quarterly reports the Senate Finance Committee won’t consider President Bush’s nomination of Andrew Biggs to serve in the number two position in the Social Security Administration. That basically kills this nomination, unless the President chooses to make a recess appointment. And why the lack of support for Mr. Biggs? We wrote [...]