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Entries from October 28th, 2011

Neocon Scare Tactics on Solvent Social Security

March 4th, 2011 · Comments Off · Human Rights, Politics

Let’s start with a couple of important facts. If we did not have Social Security, virtually every other retired person today would be in deep poverty, even–one might say–begging on the streets. Compared with 1959, when about 35% of those of retirement age were in deep poverty, today only 9% of Americans fall into that [...]

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