Quantcast
Channel: Unsilent Generation » entitlement reform
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Robbing the Old to Give to the Young (and the Rich)

Advocates for the preservation of so-called old-age entitlements have been warning for some time that Social Security and Medicare may be offered up as a sacrifice to offset the cost of the bailout and...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How Much Is a Year of Your Life Worth?

If they know what’s good for them, older folks will be especially attentive to one undercurrent in our present health care debates: an increasingly widespread view that the allocation of medical...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Social Security Give-and-Take Leaves Old Folks in the Hole

Spring has come to recession-era America, which means that all across the nation, millions of old people are emerging from hibernation and hobbling out to their mailboxes in search of their...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Phony Social Security “Crisis” Is Fueled by New Report

Yesterday I wrote about the new rounds to come in the phony crusade to “save” Social Security from bankrupting the country and destroying the lives of our grandchildren. This manufactured crisis has...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Phony Age Gap War

In “Politics and the Age Gap,” featured in yesterday’s New York Times, Adam Nagourney adds to the litany of recent articles that position old people as a primary obstacle to health care reform. In...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

David Brooks Goes After Greedy Geezers

David Brooks wants to pull the plug on us greedy, grasping old folks. Or more accurately, he wants us to pull the plug on ourselves, by giving up our generous “entitlements” and submitting to Social...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Debt Commission Chair Alan Simpson Thinks “This Country is Gonna Go to the...

For more than a year, I’ve been joining with a handful of other critics in warning that all our economic woes–the costs of the financial meltdown, and the bank bailout and stimulus spending that...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Pete Peterson’s Anti-Entitlement Juggernaut

When Obama’s new deficit commission gets going, it intends to be “partnering“–in the words of executive director Bruce Reed –with outside groups. Among them will be the foundation run by Wall Street...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Peterson Foundation’s Retirement Plan: Debtors Prisons

For readers interested in the emerging entitlement wars, and the insidious influence of Pete Peterson’s anti-entitlement campaign on the public debate (and, apparently, on Obama’s Deficit Commission),...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In the Social Security Debate, Today’s Democrats Are Worse Than Yesterday’s...

Having “retooled’’ his Presidency for a more open accommodation of the center right, Obama will soon be overseeing the battle to launch a dismantling of the Social Security system. His government has,...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live




Latest Images