At the Columbia Journalism Review , Trudy Lieberman provides further evidence for my conclusion that what really offended Alan Simpson’s critics about his comparison between Social Security and “a milk cow with 310 million tits” was his candor. Lieberman says “what’s really at stake here” is not Simpson’s colorful language but his “long-standing antipathy toward Social Security and Medicare,” which “raises the question about why the president appointed him [to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform] in the first place.” Here are the comments she cites as evidence of this antipathy: Shortly after his appointment to the commission, Simpson told the NewsHour that “this country is going to the bow-wows unless we deal with entitlements, Social Security, and Medicare.” In March, he predicted on CNBC that his commission “will be a bloodbath. You’ve got to scrub out [of] the equation the AARP, the Committee for the Preservation of Social Security and Medicare, the Gray Panthers, the Pink Panther, the whatever.” In April, he appeared on Fox News, saying that most of the mail he gets comes from seniors who “live in gated communities and drive their Lexus to the Perkins restaurant to get the AARP discount,” and are not affected “one whiff” by the changes he had in mind for Social Security
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Anyone Who Wants to Cut Entitlements Clearly Has No Place on a Commission Devoted to Fiscal Responsibility
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The bowhunting Congressman from Wisconsin takes on the flailing entitlement program in today’s Washington Post : The annual analysis of Medicare’s financial health released by the program’s trustees on Aug. 5 led some Democrats to claim that Medicare’s imminent bankruptcy has been delayed, thanks to the creation of their health entitlement program. Only in Washington could the government raid one entitlement program to finance a brand-new one and still claim that deficits have been reduced and entitlements have been reformed.
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Paul Ryan vs. Medicare
The bowhunting Congressman from Wisconsin takes on the flailing entitlement program in today’s Washington Post : The annual analysis of Medicare’s financial health released by the program’s trustees on Aug. 5 led some Democrats to claim that Medicare’s imminent bankruptcy has been delayed, thanks to the creation of their health entitlement program. Only in Washington could the government raid one entitlement program to finance a brand-new one and still claim that deficits have been reduced and entitlements have been reformed.
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Paul Ryan vs. Medicare
The bowhunting Congressman from Wisconsin takes on the flailing entitlement program in today’s Washington Post : The annual analysis of Medicare’s financial health released by the program’s trustees on Aug.
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Paul Ryan vs. Medicare
The bowhunting Congressman from Wisconsin takes on the flailing entitlement program in today’s Washington Post : The annual analysis of Medicare’s financial health released by the program’s trustees on Aug.
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Paul Ryan vs. Medicare
The bowhunting Congressman from Wisconsin takes on the flailing entitlement program in today’s Washington Post : The annual analysis of Medicare’s financial health released by the program’s trustees on Aug. 5 led some Democrats to claim that Medicare’s imminent bankruptcy has been delayed, thanks to the creation of their health entitlement program. Only in Washington could the government raid one entitlement program to finance a brand-new one and still claim that deficits have been reduced and entitlements have been reformed.
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Paul Ryan vs. Medicare
The bowhunting Congressman from Wisconsin takes on the flailing entitlement program in today’s Washington Post : The annual analysis of Medicare’s financial health released by the program’s trustees on Aug. 5 led some Democrats to claim that Medicare’s imminent bankruptcy has been delayed, thanks to the creation of their health entitlement program. Only in Washington could the government raid one entitlement program to finance a brand-new one and still claim that deficits have been reduced and entitlements have been reformed.
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Paul Ryan vs. Medicare
The bowhunting Congressman from Wisconsin takes on the flailing entitlement program in today’s Washington Post : The annual analysis of Medicare’s financial health released by the program’s trustees on Aug. 5 led some Democrats to claim that Medicare’s imminent bankruptcy has been delayed, thanks to the creation of their health entitlement program. Only in Washington could the government raid one entitlement program to finance a brand-new one and still claim that deficits have been reduced and entitlements have been reformed
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Paul Ryan vs. Medicare
Yesterday, I noted that Medicare’s Trustees cautioned readers not to put too much stock in their most recent report’s rosy projections about the program’s future. Today, The Washington Post notes that the entitlement’s chief actuary is even more critical: The Medicare program’s chief actuary was far more skeptical, contending that the report’s predictions “do not represent a reasonable expectation” of its finances. In a two-page letter accompanying the trustees’ report, Richard S
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Medicare Actuary Doubts the Health of Medicare’s Trust Fund
Congratulations, Social Security: Like so many in America, you’re now spending more than you make. In March , the Congressional Budget Office projected that Social Security would go into a deficit this year. Previous estimates had estimated that the program wouldn’t run a deficit until at least 2016; during the Bush years, the program was expected to run deficit-free until 2018 .
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Don’t Trust the Social Security Trust Fund
