The Roadmap to Privatization
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010It appears the GOP Budget philosophy is…if at first you don’t succeed with a failed idea try, try again (and again, and again.) This week the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, Paul Ryan, reintroduced his “Roadmap for America’s Future”. In short, it is a budget plan which decimates Social Security and Medicare in [...]
Fast-track Commission Derailed in Senate
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010… Seniors Applaud today’s Senate Vote Defeating Conrad/Gregg’s Fast Track Commission Following is our press statement after the vote: “America’s seniors understand what this commission proposal has been all about from the beginning—finding a way to balance the budget on the back of Social Security. For too long, fiscal hawks have tried to blame Social [...]
Should Middle Class workers and Seniors Pay America’s Debt Bill?
Monday, January 25th, 2010A USA Today’s editorial tells us they should. “Yet whenever someone says the popular programs need to be trimmed, the “don’t-touch-my-Medicare” and “don’t-touch-my Social Security” lobbies come out in full force. As long as Democrats refuse to curb benefits and Republicans refuse to raise taxes, the country slips ever closer to disaster. To be sure, [...]
National Call-In Day Underway
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Tomorrow the Senate will consider a proposal to create a fast-track commission targeting Social Security and Medicare for cuts. Fiscal hawks in Congress have selectively redefined our debt and deficit problem in order to fit their preconceived solutions — cutting Social Security and Medicare – and they see this commission as the best political [...]
This Picture is Truly Worth a $Billion Words
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010We’ve written a lot this New Year about the Peterson Foundation’s billion dollar campaign to persuade Americans that we can’t afford Social Security and Medicare…especially the organization’s ongoing efforts to persuade Congress to create a commission targeting these programs for cuts. A Senate vote on the commission proposal is expected anytime after they return, January 20.th [...]
Fast Tracking Cuts to Social Security and Medicare
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Our New Web Video details the New Year’s surprise Fiscal Hawks hope to Deliver to millions of Americans in 2010 The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare has produced a new video on Congressional proposals to create an Entitlement Commission targeting massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare. The Commission plans would put [...]
When Propaganda Trumps Truth
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010UPDATE: The Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander has completed his investigation of the Post’s outrageous relationship with Pete Peterson’s pseudo-news agency “The Fiscal Times”. In short, he found that because the reporter in question used to work for the Post, and because the Post editors came up with the original story idea and signed off [...]
What Will a Billion Dollars Buy You?
Monday, January 4th, 2010For multi-billionaire businessman Pete Peterson it buys you a foundation in your name devoted to cutting so-called “entitlements”, a movie crafted to scare Americans into believing we can’t afford Social Security and Medicare (IOUSA), an online “news service” to pass off your anti-entitlement views as news and even the Washington Post to run these advocacy [...]
Passing the Buck to an Entitlement Commission
Monday, November 16th, 2009I’ve written here before about the fundamentally flawed concept of creating an Entitlement Commission to target cuts in Medicare and Social Security as a way out of our current budget mess. Today, I posted a long look at the latest efforts in the Senate to revive , rename and repackage entitlement commission legislation as a [...]
Fast-tracking Cuts to Social Security and Medicare
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009The Senate Budget Committee heard testimony today on Chairman Kent Conrad and ranking member Senator Judd Gregg’s plans to create an entitlement commission. This group would be tasked (among other things) to “renegotiate our social contract”, as David Walker testified, under a fast-tracked, no amendments, up-or-down vote process designed to minimize Congress’ role in making [...]
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