Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) Has it Right: The Tie Binding Social Security to Medicare Should be Cut

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 20th at 06:00 AM  | 

It’s no secret to anybody who’s been paying attention to budget numbers that the United States, with a current GDP of just under $14 trillion, is $52 trillion in the hole in one specific area: Medicare and Social Security payments owed to those who have already prequalified by paying into the system. “Think about that: Unless you accept government-run health care, you have to forfeit | Read More »

Is Barack Obama a Courageous Deficit Hawk?

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  January 8th at 07:18 PM  | 

Steve Steckler thinks so, saying at The Arena: [K]udos to Obama for so boldly bring Medicare (and Social Security) into the conversation regarding fiscal discipline. The one big hope I have for Obama — a hopefulness encouraged by his selection of economic advisors — is that his enormous popularity, especially among liberals and labor/elderly constituencies that normally block reform — will give him enough confidence | Read More »