Category Archives: Retirement

Social Security: an explanation

Posted on August 15, 2012 by

Social Security is going to be in the news a lot in the coming weeks. As one who’s nearly old enough to start collecting benefits, I should start paying attention to its history and who it serves. For example, the … Continue reading →

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Some fly high, others are going to crash

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

I don’t know if the New York Times publishes these stories to piss people off, if it’s secretly saying the subjects of these kinds of stories are the epitome of greedy capitalists or if it’s making a direct appeal to … Continue reading →

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Krugman, up close

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

New York magazine has a pretty good profile on Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning economist and columnist for the New York Times. A lot of Krugman haters are conservatives who bristled when he constantly tore the Bush administration apart. … Continue reading →

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The budget fight is on

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

From E.J. Dionne Jr. at the  Washington Post on the Republican budget proposal: So far, our nation’s budget debate has been a desultory affair focused on whether a small slice of the federal government’s outlays should be cut by $33 … Continue reading →

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Seriously!

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

From Kevin Drum at Mother Jones on the budget proposal released today by Republican Paul Ryan: Courageous. Serious. Gutsy. I imagine that within a few days this will be the consensus view of the entire Beltway punditocracy. A plan dedicated … Continue reading →

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Land ho!

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

I really hate to have the morality of a vulture, but CNN has this up on its Web site: Nearly 20% of Florida homes are vacant On Thursday, the Census Bureau revealed that 18% — or 1.6 million — of … Continue reading →

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What you don’t know will hurt you

Posted on February 12, 2011 by

What can you say to people who argue a point passionately and refuse to listen to you when you point out that they haven’t the slightest clue of what they’re talking about? This from yesterday’s New York Times In a … Continue reading →

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State of the Union

Posted on January 26, 2011 by

President Obama gave his State of the Union speech tonight. Here’s the text. I listened to it this year. The television was on, but the cutaways bothered me more this year than last, so I just turned my back to … Continue reading →

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Seems like old times

Posted on January 5, 2011 by

I haven’t had much time to blog this week (new job and all), but I did see this on Digby’s blog, a reference to an essay by economist James K. Galbraith in Foreign Policy magazine on the rhetoric on raising … Continue reading →

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A Rude awakening

Posted on December 14, 2010 by

The Rude Pundit provides this “Note to the Weary Left: It’s Okay to Have Principles“. So after backing President Obama on compromise after compromise on various bills, on the stimulus, on health care reform, after supporting and advocating for deals … Continue reading →

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