Social Security

    Taking Newt Gingrich’s Ideas Seriously

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  December 14th at 03:56 PM  | 

    Ideas don’t run for president; people do. That’s as true today as it was four years ago. So, it is understandable that much of the press and blog coverage of the 2012 GOP primary race has focused on the personalities, experience and record of the candidates rather than their ideas. In fact, until you know the candidates by their actions, you cannot meaningfully judge what | Read More »

    Obama Vindicates Rick Perry on Social Security

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  September 9th at 11:00 AM  | 

    The major controversy right now in the GOP presidential primaries is over Rick Perry’s contention that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme that can’t deliver on its promises under its current structure. Mitt Romney doesn’t exactly dispute this – in fact, Romney himself said the same thing in his book, but then Romney always did like to attack other Republicans for things he himself has | Read More »

    Does Paul Krugman Understand Finance?

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  August 17th at 01:41 PM  | 

    When it comes to the ‘framing’ of public discourse on entitlements, Paul Krugman is accustomed to writing columns that are more about issuing commands than making arguments; he has railed in the past even against President Obama for admitting that yes, we do have a problem paying for the explosive present and future growth of entitlements. But even for this genre of “there is no | Read More »