[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Corporate Pension Deficits in the US Reach An Ominous Milestone
- [Workplace Prof Blog]
As pressure mounts on employers to terminate retirement income programs, I and others believe the case is becoming stronger for a mandatory, national pension program which may be based on employer contributions, an expansion of Social Security, or something in between.
- Draconian Solutions to Phony Problems
- [The Mahablog - maha]
After years of hysteria that included calls to trash the 14th Amendment, we learn there are two-thirds fewer illegal immigrants in the United States today than there were ten years ago. The mighty flood was more of a swollen creek.
…I submit this is illustrative of most “issues” emanating from the Right in the past several years. Time and time again, real crises are ignored while the Right gins up phony ones for which they propose radical solutions. [bullet points redacted]
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