Work is the new retirement -- Saving Social Security
Michael Collins satire It is hard to sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to the Social Security. Will the system survive through 2033, the current drop-dead date for full benefit funding? Are cuts in the program really necessary? Is killing off… more »
Tags: retirement, social security
Cave in Obama puts Social Security and Medicare in budget deal
Michael Collins (Washington, DC 3/22) Yesterday we found out that President Barack Obama put Medicare and Social Security in the budget deal mix; timely but not thoughtful. What a profile in cowardice. Maybe not. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt… more »
Goldman, Other Welfare Queens Tell Us Forget Social Security-Medicare Until 70
Michael Collins (Washington, DC 1/21) A long standing Money Party front, the Business Roundtable, wants you to wait until you're 70 years old before you get Social Security and Medicare benefits. This is just a reprise of the November 2012 dictate from… more »
Super Congress in Session - More of the Cruel Charade
By Michael Collins Wall Street and the big banks owe $1.5 trillion for the bailout (at least). The Super Congress needs to cut $1.5 trillion over ten years. Get the money from Wall Street and cancel the Super Congress. Problem solved. Last month’s debt… more »
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The War on You
By Michael Collins Let the word go forth from Washington! The corporate rulers occupying our nation's capital have declared war on just about every citizen. Have no doubt: those in the upper ranges of the top 1% of wealth in this country (aka The Money… more »
Obama's Budget Betrayal - Questions and Answers
By Michael Collins Question: Why did President Obama put Social Security and Medicare on the table in the budget negotiations when 80% of the people oppose cuts to these programs? Answer: The president is not in office to represent those people. He was… more »
Multi-Billion-Dollar Terrorists and the Disappearing Middle Class
James Petras The US government (White House and Congress) spends $10 billion dollars a month, or $120 billion a year, to fight an estimated “50 -75 ‘Al Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA and quoted in the Financial Times of London (6/25… more »
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Choreographed Budget Cave In - The Money Party Stabs Citizens in the Back
By Michael Collins So this is how it is going to be: "After putting controversial cuts to Social Security and Medicare on the table in negotiations with congressional Republicans over a plan to raise the nation's debt ceiling, President Obama still… more »
Inflation Hits Money and Lies
Joel S. Hirschhorn How do the powerful keep the US population dumb and distracted? A key tactic has been using methodologies that produce totally misleading underestimates of key economic factors. First we learned that official unemployment figures are… more »
Republican Plan to End Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
by Stephen Lendman Public rhetoric obscures important facts about these plans politicians won't discuss in their zeal to end them incrementally. Medicaid is welfare for low-income beneficiaries, jointly funded by the states and Washington, managed at… more »
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