Not only does McCain think that Social Security is "an absolute disgrace," he knows what he wants to do about it -- he'll reduce pensions but not increase taxes on the wealthy.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
Amid the news of "Bailouts, bailouts, bailouts!" comes word that John McCain has started flirting with the reanimation of one of his predecessor's zom...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
McCain's gaffe on Social Security indicates that he is not any better informed on major domestic policy issues than he is on foreign policy.
Bill Scher | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
You just said "Americans have got to understand" what a "disgrace" the program is. How can they if your website won't tell them?!
John McQuaid | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Presidential campaigns are always semi-improvisational -- they can't just rely on position papers, and must respond to changes in the world. But this goes well beyond semi.
Gerald McEntee | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
McCain and Bush are like two peas in a pod. They're the same on the economy. They're the same on Iraq. And they're the same on Social Security.
Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
On Monday, during a town hall in Denver, John McCain proposed a radical "fix" for the way Social Security is funded. Responding to a questioner who cl...
Elizabeth Cox | Posted 07.07.2008 | Living
Under our current system it is not possible to have retirement savings in joint name. So for better or worse, richer or poorer, in retirement planning the maxim "he who earns it, owns it" holds true.
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 07.07.2008 | Home
WHO: Economic Policy Advisor Steve Forbes and Senior Policy Advisor Doug Holtz-Eakin WHAT: Press conference call to discuss Senator Barack Obama's...
Thomas J. Mackell, Jr. | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business
With the country so far down the path to relying solely on market-driven instruments such as 401(k)s for retirement, changing hearts and minds will be akin to turning around a supertanker.
Bob Greenstein | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business
Does Jason Furman, the Obama campaign's new economic policy coordinator, really favor privatizing Social Security and cutting corporate taxes? Nonsense.
Robert Creamer | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
The key to neutralizing the natural advantage McCain holds with seniors is to convince them that Obama wants "safe change" -- that he himself is "safe" and predictable.
John McQuaid | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
If you're John McCain it shouldn't be hard to come up with a simple, compelling message that is a credible alternative to Obama's. Yet it's not happening.
Bill Scher | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
There's some evidence that McCain is currently stronger than Obama with voters over 65. If they see him lie about Social Security, that edge won't last very long.
LA Times | Kathy M. Kristof, | Posted 06.09.2008 | Business
The government plans to announce today that it will offer MasterCard debit cards to the estimated 4 million Social Security recipients who don't have ...
Thomas J. Mackell, Jr. | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
Retirement income security has been eroding for more than two decades without any apparent alarm coming from our nation's capitol and its political leaders.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.23.2008 | Media
Karl Rove faces possible arrest; sea of plastic threatens aquatic life; corporate espionage continues; deficit off by trillions, and more...
Ivan Katz | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
A recent nasty, mean-spirited action by the Bush administration ought to induce outrage. Problem is, it is hard to be outraged when you are sleeping.
Martha Burk | Posted 05.07.2008 | Living
The one day a year when we honor our mothers is once again upon us. As individuals, we're pretty fond of our mothers. But as a nation we don't value motherhood all that much.
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
The twenty-first debate of the Democratic presidential nomination race happened this week. Much fulminating in the blogosphere immediately followed. ...
Matt Cooper | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Charlie Gibson was unctuous and petty and wrong. If Americans needed more proof that the media elite are rich and out of touch, Gibson gave them more.
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business
Not where most Americans think, based on everything we've seen in polls and focus groups. Americans' distorted ideas about where the government spends...
Bob Greenstein | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
It's time for a reality check in the debate over putting the government's long-term finances back in order.
Roberto Lovato | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
Two hours after starting his new job at a food processing plant in 2006, Fernando Tinoco got fired as a result of a new program designed to identify undocumented workers.
New York Times | MARY WILLIAMS WALSH | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business
The Social Security system is choking on paperwork and spending millions of dollars a year screening dubious applications for disability benefits, acc...
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Mark Kleiman | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics