Kevin Drum has a Socratic dialogue about the whole Social Security issue. If you read nothing else to get the basics, read it. It answers most of the general questions the layman (meaning someone other than economists) should have before getting deeply into the details.
I’m nowhere near as focused on Social Security as others are, but it’s important to continue to point out that the Bush Administration is lying through its teeth. Brad DeLong finds a report from CBS MarketWatch which does an excellent job of showing up those lies. As Campaign Desk says, if only the larger media …
Josh Marshall writes about SocSec again, using Bush’s statement Tuesday that most young people don’t think they’ll ever get a dime from Social Security as a springboard. He puts himself in the category of the “young people,” which seems fair (he says he’s 35) from my advanced age. According to relatively pessimistic forecasts, two government …