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Social Security faces a future that’s insecure in the extreme.  Designed to make seniors financially safe, it’s fiscally unstable  itself — statistically bankrupt, in fact.  Why?  Because our government has  failed to respond to demographic issues that have been predictable ...Read more

Starting this new year of 2011, an average 7000 baby boomers will be turning 65 every day through 2029.  By 2030, an estimated 78 million Americans will be at least 66, and the retirees, their surviving spouses or dependents may ...Read more

Radical Reform of Social Security requires starting at the root, and that root is its real purpose and goals today, in 2010.  What are we really trying to accomplish with this program?  What are the basic problems for which we ...Read more

FDR Signing Social Security Act August 14, 1935

Government deficits and debt have reached alarming levels today, and the unfunded liabilities of tomorrow are even more staggering.  The key to attaining fiscal sobriety is entitlement reform, and Social Security is as good ...Read more

Last week, President Obama called for a second “one-time” payment of $250 to each of more than 50 million seniors receiving Social Security benefits. Some 7 million recipients of other government entitlements — veterans, the disabled, and retirees ...Read more