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eschatonblog.com - 2/24/2009
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Some Dems think that if they can just tweak Social Security they can take it off the table 4evah. It doesn't work like that. The Republicans and Fred Hiatt's gang will screech about it anyway, especially once the general fund starts repaying all the money it has borrowed from the Social ...
powerlineblog.com - 2/18/2009
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If our curent economic woes continue for, say,
two years or if the economy crashes to new...
depths, a populist backlash is almost inevitable. As I have argued ( here , for example), the conduct of the Democrats since taking power will intensify that ...
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Dems will be dems
firedoglake.com - 2/24/2009
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Let's cut to the chase here. Social Security
doesn't need a fix to make it keep helping...
seniors, even according to the very conservative estimates of the Social Security trustees, which state that Social Security: Will take in more money than it ...
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Social Security “Reform”: Are They in It for the Money?
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... that "screw you, I got mine" is not a viable long-term strategy for national fiscal health.
Cue the shrieks in 5...4...3...
The devil is absolutely in the details on every single one of these plans. No question.
Read through the whole of the Gibbs presser, you'll find far too many open questions -- including a colloquy with Helen Thomas on social security "reforms." If you are wondering, this particular issue? Not strategically inspiring.
But this back and forth with Tapper, who clearly still ...
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