A Tale of Four Countries- Part 2: Chile and Social Security Reform

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  July 24th at 09:11 AM  | 

One of the biggest programs enacted under Roosevelt’s New Deal was Social Security. Since then, the system has been sacrosanct in American politics. However, Social Security as the be-all-end-all of retirement security was never the goal nor the intentions of Roosevelt. When enacted in 1935, there were about 44 working age Americans for every retiree. At that time, more than 50% of seniors were living | Read More »

Real Health Care Reform- Part 6: Medicare

By: davenj1 (Diary)  |  June 22nd at 08:01 AM  | 

One thing that struck this writer when Obamacare was debated was how readily the liberals dropped the notion of universal health care covered by the government. Of course, I soon realized that Obamacare was a backdoor way of achieving that goal. By making it financially unfeasible for employers to offer insurance, for example, Obama and company knew full well these people would be dumped onto | Read More »