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,…
Continue ReadingIf 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:
Continue ReadingI 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…
Continue ReadingYou 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…
Continue ReadingI 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…
Continue ReadingDid 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…
Continue ReadingA 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…
Continue ReadingI’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…
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