Dear Mr. President: Chained CPI
Mr. President, is it possible you do not understand what chained CPI is or how it will affect elders for the rest of our lives?
President Obama Betrays Elders
Depending on the newsletters you subscribe to, perhaps you too have been swamped with email this week from Democratic and Progressive organizations. There is a good reason: two days ago President Barack Obama, in fiscal cliff negotiations with House Speaker…
You, Me and Social Security 2012 – Part 1: The Problem
DO NOT YAWN at the title of this post and related ones to come. It is about your ability and the ability of your children, grandchildren and beyond to house and feed themselves in old age – an expectation of…
Yet Another Threat to Social Security
Well, there is no dearth of second-guessing along with obituaries for the Republican Party. But it’s my experience that when something big changes – which is what happened in this election – it takes some time and distance to make useful sense of it.
The Morning After – Open Victory Thread
Barack Obama did it. And he did it big nearly sweeping the battleground states and with the electoral vote (at last count) 303 to 206 (more to come as counting continues). Congress retains its same divide – Democrats kept the…
Our Voices, Our Votes
For those of us too poor to purchase a president or even a congressperson to do our bidding, election day is the only chance we have for our voices to be heard about what we believe is important to our democracy, to our nation.
To me, the act we perform today, marking a ballot, is sacred. It is the guiding principle of our country, the bedrock of our society.
Big Effin’ Deal from Jan Adams
UPDATE NO. 3: I’ve edited or removed several comments urging people to vote for certain items in three or four different states. This blog and this post are not a political billboard. Please, no electioneering. UPDATE NO. 2: If the…
The right to live untidily
I chaired two lively fringe meetings at the Lib Dems and Conservative party conferences at the invitation of the ResPublica think tank. Both discussed the relationship between choice and making social care personal. Most people at these discussions were positive about the principle of being able to make choices about services. One attendee pointed out [...]
TGB Elders and the 2012 Election
Did you watch the third and last debate Monday evening between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney?
I thought assigning foreign policy as the topic was a bad idea. More so than in elections past when the nation had not been going through such hard economic times, what voters most care about now are pocketbook and social issues.
The two candidates apparently agreed as they veered into domestic policy no matter what questions moderator Bob Sheiffer asked. For us – elders – what has most been missing from the debates was a good and thorough discussion of Social Security and Medicare and I’m ticked off about that.
Live Elder Commentary Tonight During Second Presidential Debate
EVENING UPDATE: I am moderating a discussion with several other elders during the presidential debate tonight. To watch the ABC News/Yahoo! News Elders Response Hangout live at YouTube or to view the archived video later when you have time later,…
Tonight’s Presidential Debate and Social Security
If Mr. Lehrer does his job well, that second segment will include questions about Medicare and Medicaid along with Obamacare and Romneycare although 15 minutes does not seem nearly enough time to cover the topic particularly given the vast gulf between Democratic and Republican parties.
What is not mentioned in the schedule is Social Security, an omission for which AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond took the debate organizers’ to task:
Romney: Emergency Room Health Care
I missed the Mitt Romney and Barack Obama twin interviews on 60 Minutes last Sunday but these days we can rely on clips online to bring us the highlights. This one grabbed my attention (transcript below the video): TRANSCRIPT SCOTT…
What Romney REALLY Thinks of Elders
You must have heard about all this by now – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s remarkably candid statements about his disdain for half the U.S. population: On Monday, David Corn writing in Mother Jones released several clips from a recording…
How to Resolve Our Fiscal Crisis: Don’t Let Anyone 60 or Older Vote in this Election
I originally planned to title this post “Our Entitlements Make Me Richer and My Children Poorer.” But I changed it after reading Bob Laszewski’s excellent analysis of both parties’ Medicare reform proposals, which I summarized last week. Here’s ho…
Democratic Convention: Social Security and Medicare
Did you watch the Democratic Convention last week? I did. There were some damned good speakers leading up to the main event but most viewers didn’t get to see them, even on MSNBC and CNN which favored uninformed pundit chatter…
Elders and Hunger in America
A Gallup survey released last month found that one-quarter of Mississippians at least once in the preceding 12 months did not have enough money to buy the food they needed. ”In 15 states, at least one in five Americans say…
Medicare and the Republican Ticket
I’ve only glanced at this week’s Republican convention coverage on the teevee because I can no longer bear either the faces or voices of the Ryan/Romney ticket, especially those two standard bearers, but many of their surrogates also. So I…
Akin, Republicans, Women, Elders
In yesterday’s post I asked that we leave discussion of Todd Akin for another day. That day would be now. It is important for us at Time Goes By to talk about this because elders are the only people on…
Ryan/Romney – The Upside Down Presidential Ticket
It was over in all but name for Mitt Romney the minute word leaked he had chosen (or was told to choose?) Paul Ryan as his running mate. The media flock to Ryan and his budget plan because however unserious…
Romney/Ryan Relying on Greedy Geezers
It’s pretty funny watching Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his surrogates trying to distance him from his running mate’s budget that explicitly states, among other draconian measures, there would be more tax cuts for the wealthy while increasing taxes…
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