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Category Archives: Social Security
The Word’s Shortest Political Quiz, Fiscal Sanity Edition
Are willing to discuss the national debt? If so you might be a Democrat. Are you willing to discuss the much larger problem of the Social Security funding shortfall? If so you might be a Republican. Are you willing to … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Social Security
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Steve Crowder and I Got Taken in by a Ponzi Scheme
Social Security a Ponzi Scheme?! (CROWDER CALLS THE SEC!)
Posted in Social Security
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Obama: “Gimme your taxes or I’ll take away Grandma’s check”
Washington Examiner – Washington gets $200 billion a month, Social Security costs $50 billion a month, and Obama is threatening to starve Grandma? Karl Denninger at the Market Ticker has an interesting take on this. For decades Social Security run … Continue reading
Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Ireland, France, Bolivia Seize Private Pensions
Via Instapundit, European nations begin seizing private pensions: People’s retirement savings are a convenient source of revenue for governments that don’t want to reduce spending or make privatizations. As most pension schemes in Europe are organised by the state, European … Continue reading
Gold would need to go to $3500 to match the 1980 high
Gold is on a 10 year winning streak. It was $300 per ounce in 2000 and is $1,335 today. The question everyone is asking is how high will gold go? No one knows for sure, but one reference point is … Continue reading
France Raises Retirement Age from 60 to 62
About damned time. Me, I was born in 1968 so I get to retire at 67. You know what this is? It’s the world’s smallest violin playing “My heart bleeds for the French people who can’t retire until 62.” Things … Continue reading
Posted in European Union, Social Security
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Breaking News: John Kerry is still an idiot
John Kerry Says Voter Anger at Washington Is Hypocritical: “I think there’s a comprehension gap,” said Kerry. His point: While people may not be feeling the benefits of the bailouts and healthcare reform yet, Congress has been working with Obama … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Social Security
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“Texas doctors opting out of Medicare at alarming rate”
Houston Chronicle: The problem dates back to 1997, when Congress passed a balanced budget law that included a Medicare payment formula aimed at reining in spending. The formula, which assumed low growth rates, called for payment cuts if spending exceeded … Continue reading
“Social Security is earning interest on those sweet, sweet Treasury notes”
In response to yesterday’s post, Social Security Outlook Worsens. Again, a reader named Patricia comments: The Social Security Trust Fund holds $2.5 trillion in government bonds. At the current interest rate of 4.5%, it receives around $112 billion in interest … Continue reading
Posted in Social Security
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WA State Walgreen’s to Stop Taking New Medicaid Patients
Seattle Times – Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16: Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won’t take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in … Continue reading
Social Security Outlook Worsens. Again.
Reuters – Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam’s IOUs: For more than two decades, Social Security collected more money in payroll taxes than it paid out in benefits — billions more each year. Not anymore. This year, for the … Continue reading
Posted in Social Security
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Generational Inequities in Social Security Payments
Will Baby Boomers Bankrupt Social Security?: Count Gen-Xer Tom Firey among those younger workers who think they’re getting the short end of the stick. The managing editor of the conservative Cato Institute magazine, Regulation, first wrote about the subject nearly … Continue reading
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Glendale, AZ Mayo Clinic Stops Taking Medicare
Patterico – Glendale Mayo Clinic Won’t Accept Medicare: “The Mayo organization had 3,700 staff physicians and scientists and treated 526,000 patients in 2008. It lost $840 million last year on Medicare, the government’s health program for the disabled and those … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Social Security
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CBO: Social Security headed for crisis ahead of schedule
The Market Ticker – Here Comes Trouble: Three Problems: The CBO’s annual Social Security Update is out, and it’s pretty ugly: This is pretty ugly; we were not supposed to have a negative income-to-outlay view on Social Security for another … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Social Security
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10 year deficit raised $2 trillion
Zero Hedge – Long-Term Budget Deficit Revised, Now $2 Trillion Dollars Worse: White House budget review set for release Aug. 25 will show cumulative deficits over the next decade amounting to $9 trillion, up from $7.1 trillion that the administration … Continue reading
Eat the rich!
Washington Times – Congress in Fantasyland: The Congressional Budget Office projects a total additional deficit of approximately $4.9 trillion dollars during President Obama’s first term (2009-2012). Currently, the top 1 percent of taxpayers pay 40 percent of the tax, or … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Politics, Social Security
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Are Medicare cuts being subsidized by private health care?
Reason – ObamaCare is a Trojan Horse for Socialized Medicine: Medicare hasn’t controlled costs by discovering some wonder drug to deliver new efficiencies that the private sector doesn’t have. In fact, the Government Accountability Office lists Medicare as a “high-risk” … Continue reading
Candidate Obama vs. President Obama on healthcare
National Review – What Obama Used to Think of Medicare Cuts: “Now, first of all, we found out that Senator McCain wants to pay for his plan by taxing your health care benefits for the first time in history. Just … Continue reading
Fix Medicare first
Virginia Postrel: Think about this for a moment. Medicare is a huge, single-payer, government-run program. It ought to provide the perfect environment for experimentation. If more-efficient government management can slash health-care costs by addressing all these problems, why not start … Continue reading
Medicare prescription program would have funded Social Security
I’ve said before that the Medicare prescription drug program was a disaster. We didn’t know how we were going to fund existing liabilities for Social Security and Medicare. Then Bush added the prescription drug benefit without raising a single dime … Continue reading
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