Collaborative Ball-watching
For anyone not in the upper 0.001% financially and having a modicum of curiosity (yes, you!) or otherwise interested in whether the Social Security system might continue to serve as a reliable safety net at the time of retirement for you or your offspring, I've got just the referral.
Joshua Micah Marshall has devoted much of his weblog Talking Points Memo recently to the subject of Social Security. He’s been doing yeomanlike work the past couple months monitoring the ever-shifting opinions and courage of congress regarding the future of Social Security. With the help of what must be a legion of fans he maintains almost real-time head-count tallies based on public statements, responses to inquiries from constituents, and so forth.
Besides vital lawmaker tracking, regular reading of TPM may be one of the best ways to avoid being head-faked by the frequent course changes and dare I say flip-flopping of the White House and their spokesfolks. Generally unsuccessful attempts to scrub the term “privatization,” since it apparently wasn’t playing too well in the world of polls, have been a highly entertaining sideshow the past few weeks. Site visitors would have been some of the first to learn that the steps the president wants to take will actually be of no benefit in correcting projected limitations in SS accounts in the future. “Fixing” SS was one of the primary original justifications for the president’s privatization plan; revelation that no improvement in SS would actually result makes for a good test of your pattern-recognition skills.
Marshall is a gifted coiner:
The “Conscience Caucus” is made up of republicans opposed to the president’s dream of fatally weakening and thus eliminating Social Security on the pretext of partial privatization of retirement accounts. Special recognition in the form of a “Loud and Proud” label is earned by those speaking out unequivocally in opposition to the president’s plan.
The “Fainthearted Faction” consists of democrats who appear candidates for supporting the president’s program of privatization and Social Security extermination.
Give him a read. Better yet, how about a bookmark and regular reading.
Joshua Micah Marshall has devoted much of his weblog Talking Points Memo recently to the subject of Social Security. He’s been doing yeomanlike work the past couple months monitoring the ever-shifting opinions and courage of congress regarding the future of Social Security. With the help of what must be a legion of fans he maintains almost real-time head-count tallies based on public statements, responses to inquiries from constituents, and so forth.
Besides vital lawmaker tracking, regular reading of TPM may be one of the best ways to avoid being head-faked by the frequent course changes and dare I say flip-flopping of the White House and their spokesfolks. Generally unsuccessful attempts to scrub the term “privatization,” since it apparently wasn’t playing too well in the world of polls, have been a highly entertaining sideshow the past few weeks. Site visitors would have been some of the first to learn that the steps the president wants to take will actually be of no benefit in correcting projected limitations in SS accounts in the future. “Fixing” SS was one of the primary original justifications for the president’s privatization plan; revelation that no improvement in SS would actually result makes for a good test of your pattern-recognition skills.
Marshall is a gifted coiner:
The “Conscience Caucus” is made up of republicans opposed to the president’s dream of fatally weakening and thus eliminating Social Security on the pretext of partial privatization of retirement accounts. Special recognition in the form of a “Loud and Proud” label is earned by those speaking out unequivocally in opposition to the president’s plan.
The “Fainthearted Faction” consists of democrats who appear candidates for supporting the president’s program of privatization and Social Security extermination.
Give him a read. Better yet, how about a bookmark and regular reading.
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