ELF News Archives
Febuary 2004- Greenspan Suggests Cutting Social Security Benefits To Trim Deficit -
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan urged Congress on Wednesday to deal with the country's escalating budget deficit by cutting benefits for future Social Security retirees rather than raising taxes.
WBAL NEWS 2/25
- Fixing another Medicare muddle -
Despite Medicare, the elderly always have been responsible for buying their own medicines. Thus, they felt more of the financial pain of paying for drugs than paying for doctors or hospitals, which in fact cost far more. That pain led Congress to try to buy votes by vastly expanding a program already headed for financial ruin.
Town Hall 2/24
- The secrets to longevity -
Findings from the New England Centenarian Study in Boston suggest that longevity does run in families — the sibling of a centenarian is four times more likely to live past 90 than the general population.
But good genes are just part of the story.
USA Today 2/23
- Commentary: Selfish elderly to bankrupt US -
The implementation of a prescription drug program for Medicare is the capping of years of selfishness on the part of elderly Americans -- and their baby boomer enablers -- who seem intent on bankrupting the government and padding their retirement pockets despite the fiscal and social cost to young Americans.
Washington Times 2/23
- Social Security This Week -
CNew Cato Study Warns that Social Security is a Bad Deal for
Workingwomen; Tanner: Totalization Agreements Not a Treat; and much more!
Cato Institute 2/23
- Social Security This Week -
Cato's Social Security Solution; White House: Social Security Reform Key to Long-term Debt Reduction; Latest Polling:
Little Confidence in Social Security; and much more!
Cato Institute 2/14
- Is Social Security the most destructive government program ever devised? -
The politicians tell us Social Security protects us from our own failure to save. Indeed it does in many cases, but it also robs lower and middle-income families of the means to save.
Downsize DC 2/10
- Social Security This Week -
Howard Dean: Social Security Not in Need of Reform; West Wing Tackles Social Security Reform; Poll: Support for Individual
Accounts Still Strong; and much more!
Cato Institute 2/06
- Unsustainable spending will force tax increases -
Therefore, it was very disturbing when The New York Times reported on Jan. 30 that the Bush administration's internal estimate was that the drug bill passed by Congress would actually cost $534 billion over 10 years.
Town Hall 2/06
- Need a Nursing Home? -
"Right now it's not a good [time]" to be looking for a nursing home..."Staff is really getting shorter and shorter."
Washington Times 2/03