ELF News Archives
March 2003- Social Security Trustees Report: Inaction Not An Option -
Not surprisingly, the Board of Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds annual report released Monday covered territory we’ve been over before but is as timely as ever.
Cato Institute 03/30
- Many unprepared to care for aged -
An unprecedented number of Americans are finding themselves in the role of caregiver for a relative or even a friend.
USA Today 03/24
- Social medicine -
The 78-year-old Springfield woman is part of a relatively new trend in health care, in which patients meet their doctors in a group setting that lasts far longer than the average appointment.
Washington Times 03/24
- Nursing home bill debated in Senate
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"People have a right to know when a loved one is harmed,"...
Baltimore Sun 03/21
- Visit A "Nursing Home" Near You -
You all need to see exactly what happens to a great many of our elderly - and what might be your fate one day.
Sierra Times 03/21
- Political propaganda places quality of life at risk - limiting the debate -
Once people in this country argued over whether government should be big and pushy or small and demure. But those days are gone. Now the argument is over how you like your coercive meddling: direct or indirect. Either way, there will be coercive meddling by the ham-handed state. So Clinton and Dole are perfect representatives of the political views that dominate accepted thinking.
Sierra Times 03/21
- Honda plans to raise retirement age in £40m pension gap move -
HONDA is attempting to raise the retirement age for workers at its British plant from 60 to 62 in an effort to stave off a financial crisis in its stricken pension fund.
London Times 03/21
- Age Concern saves the day -
...a spritely 98 years old, and Mrs Clement, 74, thought they that they would have to abandon plans for an African cruise because they could not get insurance.
London Times 03/21
- A boost for reform of Social Security -
The new Annual Report of the Social Security Board of Trustees will be out this morning.
Washington Times 03/20
- Is this the secret of long life? -
IF YOU WORRY about ageing, you might be tempted by an internet product called Longevity...
London Times 03/20
- Support Our Boys in Uniform -
I, too, support our boys in uniform — but in a different way. I don’t want to see a single one of them die in a useless war that will leave the world no better than before, and that will probably make America much less safe — rather than more secure.
Harry Brown 03/19
- IRAQ VERSUS THE NEW WORLD ORDER -
So on what grounds was that war effort sold to us? The more gullible were of course told that US troops were fighting for "freedom" and "democracy" in the Middle East. The fact that there was not much of either to be found in Kuwait mattered little to a television-addled populace who eagerly supported a war against a nation they couldn’t even find on a map.
Ether Zone 03/19
- Something that will forever affect us all,...
young and old alike -
"This is a time for truth. For America is about to make a momentous decision: whether to launch a series of wars in the Middle East that could ignite the Clash of Civilizations against which Harvard professor Samuel Huntington has warned, a war we believe would be a tragedy and a disaster for this Republic. To avert this war, to answer the neocon smears, we ask that our readers review their agenda as stated in their words. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. As Al Smith used to say, “Nothing un-American can live in the sunlight.”
We charge that a cabal of polemicists and public officials seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America’s interests. We charge them with colluding with Israel to ignite those wars and destroy the Oslo Accords. We charge them with deliberately damaging U.S. relations with every state in the Arab world that defies Israel or supports the Palestinian people’s right to a homeland of their own. We charge that they have alienated friends and allies all over the Islamic and Western world through their arrogance, hubris, and bellicosity.
Not in our lifetimes has America been so isolated from old friends. Far worse, President Bush is being lured into a trap baited for him by these neocons that could cost him his office and cause America to forfeit years of peace won for us by the sacrifices of two generations in the Cold War.
They charge us with anti-Semitism—i.e., a hatred of Jews for their faith, heritage, or ancestry. False. The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a “passionate attachment” to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what’s good for Israel is good for America."
Pat Buchanan
American Conservative 03/18
- Mr. Robin Cook (Livingston): Resgination Speech at British House of Commons -
Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term—namely a credible device capable of being delivered against a strategic city target. It probably still has biological toxins and battlefield chemical munitions, but it has had them since the 1980s when US companies sold Saddam anthrax agents and the then British Government approved chemical and munitions factories. Why is it now so urgent that we should take military action to disarm a military capacity that has been there for 20 years.
London Times 03/18
- Deadly Illness Poses Imminent Threat to World and Elderly -
A MYSTERIOUS deadly type of pneumonia is travelling the world by airliner and there is no known cure.
London Times 03/17
- Social Security fix unlikely very soon -
President Bush's proposal to overhaul Social Security is unlikely to come to a vote in the current Congress, according to Republicans who cite competing priorities as well as political concerns.
Washington Times 03/16
- Researchers find optimism helps ward off disease (ELF Priniciple of Striving to Thrive) -
There really is power in positive thinking...
Daily Breeze 03/10
- THHS chief presses Medicare reform -
Providing prescription drugs for seniors is the "dessert" being offered by the White House to get Congress to force down a bitter plate of fundamental Medicare reform...
Washington Times 03/06
- Posturing over Medicare -
The administration's proposal would spend $400 billion over the next decade on a new Medicare drug benefit. It would give seniors the option to remain in the existing Medicare program or take the federal money and join a private plan.
Washington Times 03/06
- Bush abandoned on Medicare -
His proposal to give seniors a choice to stay in the existing Medicare program or take the money and join a private health plan to the horror of the Democratic Party ...
Washington Times 03/06
- The Medigap gap -
Medicare taxes young workers on the first and last dollar they earn, regardless how poor they are, in order to subsidize medical bills for those over age 65, regardless how rich they are.
Town Hall 03/06
- Nursing home failures -
officials of the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene have recommended to the federal government that the nursing home's participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs be terminated May 27 unless the facility is brought into compliance with regulations.
Baltimore Sun 03/06
- Senators seek funds for aliens' medical care -
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat, joined with five Republicans yesterday in calling for the passage of legislation to reimburse states for the costs of federally mandated emergency health care for illegal aliens.
Washington Times 03/05
- AARP Funded by Your Tax Dollars -
United Seniors Association's research staff has learned the AARP has received over $1 BILLION in taxpayer-funded federal government grants over the last 15 years.
That means your hard-earned money is being given away to the AARP.
On top of that, they get hundreds of millions a year in advertising revenue, insurance royalties, and advertising revenue from the products and benefits marketed to their members.
AARP is a big business, largely funded at taxpayers' expense!
United Seniors Association 03/03