Social-Security – The Hard Right News

Means Testing is Off the Table for Social Security

First Congress steals $2.5 trillion from our Social Security Trust Fund. Then they give us a paper “IOU” that doesn’t even pay interest. Everybody in Washington has pretty much written off ever paying us back. […]

Congress Owes the Social Security Trust Fund $2.5 TRILLION

Both parties in Washington are circling the wagons around Social Security. They’ve spent the last two years lobbing mortars and smart bombs at our national pension, softening up the American people for the inevitable reduction […]

What We Need is 100,000 new P.E. Teachers

Conservatives want to put an armed security guard in every school of America. That’s 100,000 schools times two guards for two shifts equals 200,000 guards times $50,000 salary equals $10 billion. The NRA is pushing […]

Congress Wants Seniors to Eat Cat Food

There’s an insidious new “fix” to Social Security making the rounds in Congress called “chained CPI.” It’s been a popular option with both parties in Congress lately as they hash out ways to lower the […]