Ahhh…the Good Old Days…Debtor’s Prisons and No Entitlements
Thursday, June 10th, 2010Apparently, these are the “good-old days” our nation’s fiscal hawks relish. The Peterson Foundation’s David Walker co-hosted CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning (personally, we yearn for the good-old days when so-called “news” shows were hosted by journalists—not partisan advocates—but that’s another debate). The discussion followed the classic Peterson Foundation talking points—government bad, business good—but ultimately [...]
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, [...]
The Truth about the 2009 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009Here’s the bottom line from this year’s Trustees Report: Social Security is still fully funded for 28 years No COLA increase planned for retirees Skyrocketing health costs nationwide continue to threaten Medicare Undoubtedly, these facts truths will probably be buried in coverage of this year’s Trustees report as the anti-entitlement crowd revs up its billion [...]
Seniors Ask…Why Social Security Now?
Thursday, May 7th, 2009Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s promise to put Social Security reform on the legislative agenda this fall has many seniors asking…why? America’s retirees understand the need to strengthen Social Security for future generations. For them, Social Security isn’t just a political issue — it’s what pays the bills. But given the long list of critical challenges [...]
Social Security & Retirement Questions for Obama Online Town Hall
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Hundreds of questions on Social Security, Medicare and Retirement security have been submitted for today’s Presidential online Town Hall meeting which starts at 11:30am. In all, 91,666 people submitted 103,096 questions on issues ranging from education to jobs to energy policy. Americans were allowed to vote for their favorite questions with 3,569,419 votes cast. Here are [...]
Don’t Buy the Lie about Social Security
Thursday, March 19th, 2009A new survey by Sun Life Financial claims that nearly half of all workers questioned would like to stop paying into Social Security, even if that means they don’t get any benefits when they retire. They report more workers in their 30′s share this view (59 percent) than those facing retirement soon, 60 and older (33% [...]
Looking for Any Opportunity to Target Social Security
Friday, March 6th, 2009It’s hard to imagine how, after sitting through hours of discussion about health care reform at yesterday’s White House summit, Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell chose Social Security as his very first comment on the event. For a split second, we thought maybe he forgot which summit he was actually attending (last week’s was Fiscal [...]
Healthcare Reform = Entitlement Reform
Monday, February 23rd, 2009National Committee President/CEO, Barbara Kennelly, participated in today’s Financial Responsibility Summit and was a member of the Social Security group. Here is her reaction to today’s event: “We support President Obama’s promise to return fiscal responsibility to our federal budget and we also agree that our nation’s biggest long-term fiscal challenge is health care [...]
“Let’s Make a Deal” Politics Trades Social Security for Stimulus
Monday, January 12th, 2009Anti-entitlement members of Congress want President-elect Obama to make a deal to gain their support for a desperately needed stimulus package. It’s a political quid-pro-quo that would trade away long-term benefits for generations of seniors, survivors, the disabled and their families for a short-term economic recovery package desperately needed to reverse the damage of eight years [...]
Stimulus vs. Safety net is a False Choice
Thursday, January 8th, 2009We here at the National Committee congratulate the new Congress and President-elect Obama for making economic recovery an immediate priority. Skyrocketing medical bills, shrinking savings and plummeting home values have hit retirees, living on fixed incomes, especially hard. For many, Social Security and Medicare have provided their only stable economic security during these tough times. [...]
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