He said that the new economic challenge for America is people.
Social Security
Posted inPolitical Animal
Will Republicans Apologize for Embracing Trump After the 2018 Midterms? They Just Might.
Remember when Republicans used to make fun of Barack Obama for supposedly going on an “apology tour” of foreign countries? This argument was profoundly silly to rational people, which is why it was so popular among right-wingers. The “apology tour” nonsense was little more than an effort to gin up as much hatred as possible […]
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
Obama Games the Grand Bargain Correctly
I agree with Scott Lemieux’s take on how the Obama administration handled negotiations over Social Security during the heyday of the Grand Bargain negotiations, although I am not so sure that I concur with his assessment of the political downside: Until 2014, Obama’s budget proposals included an offer to reduce the growth of Social Security […]
Posted inEconomy, Government
Social Security’s Budget Crisis Begins Next Year
11 million Americans receiving Social Security disability insurance could face painful benefit cuts as early as 2016.
Posted inMagazine
Antisocial Security
Every once in a while, the federal government will do something that seems to have been calculated to foster bitterness and hostility among the populace as they realize what’s being done to them. A recent example came in late October, when the House, under intense pressure from the federal employee unions, voted to shelve a […]
