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Social Security News     last updated July 31 10:22pm PST

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August 1st, 2010

• Social Security Jitters? Better Prepare Now (Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times)

July 30th, 2010

• US Faces Enormous and Unsustainable Fiscal Deficits (op-ed - Daniel Seiver / San Diego Union-Tribune)

July 26th, 2010

• VIDEO: Former US Comptroller General David Walker Talks About the Federal Fiscal Crisis (interviewed by Nick Gillespie / Reason.tv)
• Social Security Loses $50 Million a Year in Benefit Overpayments (Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times)

July 20th, 2010

• Poll Finds Faith in Social Security System Tanking (Susan Page / USA Today)

July 13th, 2010

• Lawmakers Defend Social Security's Chief Actuary in Clash With Commissioner (Robert Pear / New York Times)

July 12th, 2010

• Might the President's Deficit Commission Recommend Social Security Reform? (op-ed - Fred Barnes / Wall Street Journal)

July 11th, 2010

• Roundtable Discussion: 'Should We Act Now or Later to Fix Social Security?' (Doug Halonen / Pensions & Investments)

July 6th, 2010

• Time to 'Fix' Social Security (blog - Meep / Piece of Work in Progress)

June 28th, 2010

• Despite $120 Trillion National Debt, Congress Considers Bill to Regulate Dog Breeders -- Introduced by California Rep. (Rob Hotakainen / Sacramento Be
• National Debt Is Greater Than $120 Trillion -- More That Eight Times Larger Than Congress Admits (Free Enterprise Nation)

June 25th, 2010

• Broke! Fixing America's Fiscal Crisis: When Will You Get to Retire? (Jeanne Sahadi / CNN Money)

June 22nd, 2010

• States and Local Governments Have a Stake in Fixing Social Security and Medicare (column - Girard Miller / Governing Magazine)

June 17th, 2010

• Washington's Spending Defies the Laws of Economics (editorial - Augusta Chronicle)

June 15th, 2010

• Obama’s Deficit Reduction Panel Isn't Afraid of Touching the 'Third Rail' of American Politics (Margaret Smith / In These Times)

June 14th, 2010

• Medicare Myths, Facts (op-ed - Newt Gingrich and Nancy Desmond / Boston Herald)

June 13th, 2010

• US Debt to Rise to $19.6 Trillion by 2015 (Reuters / CNBC)

June 10th, 2010

• Bernanke Warns US of 'Unsustainable' Debt Level (Jia Lynn Yang / Washington Post)

May 25th, 2010

• Lots of Options, But No Easy Fixes for Social Security (editorial - Battle Creek Enquirer)

May 18th, 2010

• Social Security Only Needs Small 'Tweaks' According to New Congressional Report (Stephen Ohlemacher / Denver Post)

May 10th, 2010

• Moody's Says US Debt Shock May Hit in 2018, Maybe as Soon as 2013 (Jed Graham / Investor's Business Daily)

May 7th, 2010

• Arkansas Senate Candidates Avoid Social Security Math (column - Steve Brawner / Arkansas News)

May 5th, 2010

• Day of Reckoning for Social Security Is Here (op-ed - Steve Edmondson / Tennessean)

May 4th, 2010

• America's Precarious Net Position (Veronique De Rugy / Journal of the American Enterprise Institute)

April 28th, 2010

• Presidential Commission to Address Rising National Debt (Lori Montgomery / Washington Post)

April 13th, 2010

• Retirement Delay Seen Key to a Solvent Social Security (Jennifer Harper / Washington Times)

March 30th, 2010

• Social Security's Fuse Shorter (editorial - Orange County Register)

March 29th, 2010

• Suddenly, A Backbone: Congress Now Needs It on Other Big Problems, Like Social Security (editorial - San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Social Security Shows Ineptitude Crosses Political Lines (letter - Panama City News Herald)
• EDITORIAL CARTOON: Social Security (Steve Breen / San Diego Union-Tribune)

March 28th, 2010

• How Can You Tell When an Imaginary Trust Fund Disappears? (blog - Jacob Sullum / Reason Magaine)

March 26th, 2010

• Social Security in Deep Trouble (op-ed - Michael Tanner / Orange County Register)
• EDITORIAL CARTOON on Social Security (Steve Breen / San Diego Union-Tribune)

March 25th, 2010

• Social Security to See Payout Exceed Pay-In This Year (Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times)

March 23rd, 2010

• Next Big Issue? Social Security Pops Up Again (Jackie Calmes / New York Times)

February 25th, 2010

• New Obama Health Plan Would Tax Some Annuity Income to Fund Medicare (Arthur Postal / Life and Health)

February 24th, 2010

• A Deficit of Common Sense (commentary - Paul Jacob / Common Sense)

February 17th, 2010

• How NOT to Reform Pensions (blog - Andrew Biggs / American Enterprise Insistute)

February 16th, 2010

• The Social Security Shortfall (op-ed - Star Parker / Trentonian)

February 15th, 2010

• Outrageous, But Legal: Social Security Ponzi Scheme Needs a Bailout (Damien Hoffman / Huffington Post)

February 12th, 2010

• Social Security Coffers Drying Up (column - Jay Ambrose / Orange County Register)

February 8th, 2010

• Tax Increases Can't Plausibly Address the Coming Entitlement Crisis (op-ed - R. Glenn Hubbard / Wall Street Journal)

February 7th, 2010

• Don't Look Now, But the Social Security Crisis Just Started (Allan Sloan / Fortune)

December 14th, 2009

• Expand a Bankrupt Medicare? Are Members of Congress of Both Parties Psychopaths or Sociopaths? (blog - Alan Bock / Orange County Register)

November 24th, 2009

• US Must Wake Up, Face Growing Debt Nightmare (editorial - San Francisco Chronicle)

November 23rd, 2009

• Can We Save Social Security? (Gary Weiss / Parade)

November 20th, 2009

• Social Security Age Must Be Increased (op-ed - William R. Tompkins / the Reporter)

November 10th, 2009

• Is Social Security a Savings Account or a Ponzi Scheme? (column - John Horner / Colorado Springs Gazette)

October 22nd, 2009

• Buying the Votes of Senior Citizens (column - Debra Saunders / San Francisco Chronicle)
• Social Security COLA Checks Prove Obama's Not Serious About Saving Money (column - George Will / Washington Post)

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