Every time our policy elites whine about how hard it is to be them I just have to laugh.
What they mean is it’s hard to keep the lies straight in the face of the truth.
No more ‘me first’ mentality on entitlements
By Neel Kashkari, The Washington Post
Monday, July 26, 2010
Cutting entitlement spending requires us to think beyond what is in our own immediate self-interest. But it also runs against our sense of fairness: We have, after all, paid for entitlements for earlier generations. Is it now fair to cut my benefits? No, it isn’t. But if we don’t focus on our collective good, all of us will suffer.
Getting Lost in the Fog of War
By ANDREW EXUM, The New York Times
Published: July 26, 2010
Many experts on the war, both in the military and the press, have long been struggling to come to grips with the conflict’s complexity and nuances. What is the public going to make of this haphazard cache of documents, many written during combat by officers with little sense of how their observations fit into the fuller scope of the war?
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The people on the deficit commission keep on proving they are the wrong people for the job. There are 18 members, all are millionaires, 14 are white men. There are no commissioners, or for that matter any one with knowledge of social security or retirement income, except one woman, Alice Rivkin and even she has it wrong. Ms. Rivkin penned an article explaining social security needs saving. The only thing that Social Security needs saving from is the deficit hawks, like Ms Rivkin, who want to gut it.
Jane Hamsher piece at FDL today explains what Ms. Rivkin and the other members of the Cat Food Commission don’t want you to know and what they are refusing to even menntion.
Social Security is NOT in trouble. It is NOT an entitlement when you have paid for it. It is insurance.