Archive for the 'Social Security' Category

Jose Pinera on Retirement Security : Part 2

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 by Brendan Steinhauser

Jose Pinera talks about personal retirement accounts

Friday, August 3rd, 2007 by Brendan Steinhauser

Private Social Security Accounts Could Make Up For Lack of Savings

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 by Xander Zebrose

A recent article in the Boston Globe wrote that
Nearly one-third of baby boomers ages 51 to 61 are at risk of not having enough in savings to finance a comfortable retirement
One of the reasons people are having difficulty saving is because social security does not pay seniors enough to live on. If individuals could […]

The looming fiscal crisis

Monday, July 30th, 2007 by Brendan Steinhauser

Newsweek’s Robert Samuelson points out that entitlement spending will reach 75% of the federal budget by 2030.
Consider the outlook. From 2005 to 2030, the 65-and-over population will nearly double to 71 million; its share of the population will rise to 20 percent from 12 percent. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—programs that serve older people—already exceed […]

And they say that the young generation has a sense of entitlement!

Monday, July 30th, 2007 by Matt Hittle

In a recent article, Robert J. Samuelson discusses the fact that the Baby Boomer generation will force the federal government to pay out of the nose in entitlements for the elderly in the coming years.
The 2030 projections are daunting. To keep federal spending stable as a share of the economy would mean eliminating all defense […]

Mitt Romney says he supports personal accounts

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 by Brendan Steinhauser

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is sounding a bit different on Social Security reform.
Watch this S4 video by CLICKING HERE.

Jose Pinera talks retirement security en espanol

Monday, July 23rd, 2007 by Brendan Steinhauser

The creepiest non-issue yet

Friday, July 20th, 2007 by Matt Hittle

Republican Presidential Candidates Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney have been arguing about sex education for kindergarten-aged children.
And here: http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=3395856
Excuse me?
Social Security won’t be around when these children are 30, let alone 65.
Socialized health care threatens their future choice, health, and well being.
Government spending is out of control.
Government policy threatens to drive energy costs up and […]

Action on Entitlement Reform

Thursday, June 21st, 2007 by Peter Deery

GAO head David Walker has become so fed up with Washington’s runaway spending and lack of action on entitlement reform that he is leading a ‘wake up’ tour outside the beltway to bring to light these growing problems to voters. The goal is to get the presidential candidates to begin debating and discussing these issues […]

Bureaucrash explains socialist security to leftist bloggers

Monday, June 18th, 2007 by Brendan Steinhauser

This video of Bureacrash is hillarious. Kind of exposes the left’s ignorance of Ponzi schemes.

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