Archive for the ‘Social Security’ Category

Social Security and Wealth Distribution

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

The Social Security issue has always been a moral issue to me. The Fly Bottle has a link to a David Shapiro article on the morality of Social Security. It looks like I've been echoing Shapiro for some time without realizing it. The thread of comments below by Chris ...

The Inevitability of Social Security Reform

Monday, January 17th, 2005

There's been a lot of talk recently about President Bush's proposal for Social Security reform. And while a mind-numbing amount of numbers are being bandied about, both in support of the need for reform and in a silly reversal by the Left regarding the existence of the Crises, I ...

Paul Krugman is Back It’s

Thursday, December 9th, 2004

Paul Krugman is Back It's been some time since I've beat up on my second favortie New York Times columnist, but I stumbled over this early in the week and haven't had time to post it. In typical Krugmaniacal fashion, Paul has conflicting views on the solvency of Social Security. ...

Op-Ed Columnist: Social Security Scares

Friday, March 5th, 2004

Op-Ed Columnist: Social Security Scares Krugman is spouting his usual lies and banality about the Social Security system and how it must be preserved. I love the way he says the system is essentiall robust and only a 'modest' infusion of money will keep it going for the next 75 ...