Esquire Magazine: Writer wanted to help convert class war into generational war. No skills required; pays top dollar
Posted by depelton on April 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Reprinted with permission from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (March 30, 2012)
By Dean Baker
This could well have been the want-ad Esquire used to attract a writer for its story titled, “War Against Youth.” This lengthy piece is the best compendium of warped logic and misplaced facts on this topic since the Peter Peterson [...]
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Why Mitt Romney’s Entitlement-Privatization Plan Is Crazy
Posted by depelton on November 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment
By Matt Taibbi
“David Brooks, the [gratuitous insult deleted], wrote this this morning entitled “Mitt Romney, the Serious One.” In it, he explained how Romney’s recent decision to unveil a plan for reforming the entitlement system “demonstrates his awareness of the issues that need to define the 2012 presidential election.”
Romney grasped the toughest issue – how to reform [...]
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All Things Considered Falls for Pew’s Phony Generational War Story
Reprinted from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (November 7, 2011)
By Dean Baker
All Things Considered did a major piece on a study from the Pew Research Center which showed substantial increase in the median wealth of people over age 65 from 1983 to 2009, while wealth among those under 35 actually fell. The Pew study [...]
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Washington Post Discards All Journalistic Standards in Attack on Social Security
Posted by depelton on October 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Reprinted from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (October 29, 2011)
By Dean Baker
News outlets generally like to claim a separation between their editorial pages and their news pages. The Washington Post has long ignored this distinction in pursuing its agenda for cutting Social Security, however it took a big step further in tearing down [...]
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GOP’s 7 Biggest Economic Lies
Posted by depelton on October 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Get your 2 minute and 30 second dose of truth from Robert Reich, about the seven biggest economic lies:
1. Tax cuts for the rich trickle down to everyone else.
2. Higher taxes on the rich would hurt the economy and slow job growth.
3. Shrinking government generates more jobs.
4. Cutting the budget deficit now is [...]
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My Email to Obama, Advising Him How to Win in 2012
Posted by depelton on July 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment
I sent the following email to President Obama today, using the form provided for that purpose at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact :
Dear Mr. President:
As a senior, I’d prefer to see you re-elected next year, although I
understand why your support of cuts to Social Security and Medicare may make that unlikely.
Still, if you change your mind and decide you’d like [...]
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Sen. Warner’s Claim Of Rapidly Shrinking Worker-To-Retiree Ratio Based On Misleading Numbers
Posted by depelton on April 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Reprinted from Campaign for America’s Future.
By Scott Hochberg
On Face the Nation this Sunday, Sen. Mark Warner was asked by host Bob Schieffer why his ‘Gang of Six’ would take on Social Security reform in their forthcoming budget proposal. His response reflected a commonly-held myth about Social Security’s history that greatly exaggerates the changes in the worker-to-retiree ratio [...]
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FactCheck Gets It Wrong on Social Security and the Deficit
Posted by depelton on March 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Originally published by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), February 26, 2011. Reprinted under Creative Commons License.
by Dean Baker
FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenburg Public Policy Center, wrongly attacked a number of prominent Democrats for correctly pointing out that Social Security does not contribute to the deficit. The people attacked included New York Senator [...]
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