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Bruce Bialosky (Jan 09, 2012)
To even write a column with this title risks being classified as someone out of touch with average Americans. Nevertheless, I’m confident in my conviction on this issue; and,...
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Walter E. Williams (Oct 05, 2011)
Politicians who are principled enough to point out the fraud of
Social Security, referring to it as a lie and Ponzi scheme, are under
siege. Acknowledgment of...
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Thomas Sowell (Sep 27, 2011)
One of the problems in trying to select a leader for any large
organization or institution is the tendency to start out looking for
Superman, passing up many good...
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Walter E. Williams (Sep 21, 2011)
During the recent GOP presidential debate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said that Social Security is a "monstrous lie" and a "Ponzi scheme." More and more people are coming to see...
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Thomas Sowell (Sep 20, 2011)
Many in the media and in politics have gone ballistic over the fact that Texas Governor Rick Perry called Social Security "a Ponzi scheme."
Although many act...
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Janet M. LaRue (Sep 19, 2011)
When it comes to Social Security, Republicans should stop treating seniors like the feeble-minded demographic portrayed in commercials written by 13-year-olds on Madison...
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Bill Murchison (Sep 13, 2011)
So much for the spirit of we're-all-in-it-together, which prevailed, more or less, at the 9/11 commemorations.
The next day, President Barack Obama showed up in...
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David Limbaugh (Sep 13, 2011)
It is very disheartening to see Republican presidential primary candidates racing to out-demagogue one another in denouncing Texas Gov. Rick Perry's accurate description of...
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Star Parker (Sep 12, 2011)
I have a great plan for “saving” Social Security.
Today’s average U.S. life expectancy is 78 years. Let’s make the retirement...
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Jeff Jacoby (Sep 07, 2011)
My mother's mother revered Franklin Roosevelt. She voted for him four times, and firmly defended him decades later, when I tried to convince her that FDR...
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Marvin Olasky (Sep 06, 2011)
We're regularly told how complex the national debt issue is, particularly with programs like Social Security and Medicare radically underfunded. I agree that Medicare is...
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Jeff Jacoby (Sep 06, 2011)
Charles Ponzi was a Boston swindler who in 1920 bilked thousands of people out of millions of dollars by selling them bonds that guaranteed a fabulous rate of return -- 100...
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Ken Connor (Sep 05, 2011)
They say there are only two sure things in life: death and taxes. Thanks to unbelievable gains in medical technology in recent years however, most Americans are now...
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Thomas Sowell (Jun 21, 2011)
One of my earliest memories of revulsion against war came from seeing a photograph from the First World War when I was a teenager. It was nothing gory. Just a picture of a...
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John Hawkins (May 03, 2011)
The biggest terrorist on Planet Earth has, at long last, been delivered to justice
courtesy of a SEAL's bullet. Some people may say we haven't won anything
because killing...
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Michelle Malkin (Apr 13, 2011)
It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so...
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Howard Rich (Mar 10, 2011)
The Social Security debate is no different than the debate over any other government program – there are just a lot more zeroes involved. Of course the more zeroes, the less...
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Joseph C. Phillips (Oct 18, 2010)
There is, perhaps, no better testament to how far this nation has drifted from the principles of individual liberty, free markets, and private property than that those...
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Star Parker (Oct 04, 2010)
Keeping government limited is a practical approach to governing that opens the door to growth and prosperity.
Why?
Consider a fundamental difference between...
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Carrie Schwab Pomerantz (Sep 15, 2010)
Dear Carrie: My husband and I are both considering taking Social Security next year at age 62. I'm told that I could draw on my husband's account and potentially collect more...
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