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 Dr. Larry Blog Posts: September 05, 2010, 02:46 PM On Fox Sunday, Sen. John McCain said, “We [Republicans] have to give them a reason to vote for us,” as if saying no to bad stuff isn’t more than enough reason to vote for them. If McCain really wants to give Americans reasons to vote Republican, he should start by offering them this baker’s dozen:
September 04, 2010, 06:12 PM Congressional architects of ObamaCare carefully constructed it to fail and in the process of failing lead into a "solution" that is closer to their ultimate objective—socialized medicine. ObamaCare is a three-step jump—individual mandate, public option, socialized medicine—very risky scheme. Senator Ron Wyden (D-WA) prefers a two-step jump—just skip the whole individual mandate thing, get directly to a public option run by the states, which itself will collapse and require a federal rescue/bailout in the form of real socialized medicine.
September 02, 2010, 11:34 AM President Obama is playing “Watch the Birdie” with Americans over the age of 50, diverting their attention with handouts and scare tactics to hide in plain sight the enormous damage his policies are doing to the retirement safety net. Now he is coming after Social Security.
August 22, 2010, 01:27 PM You’ve probably seen the television ads featuring Andy Griffith extolling the virtues of Medicare. But Social Security Institute President Dr. Larry Hunter says the ad is a lie and the Obama administration and the AARP are using Griffith to deceive seniors and to distract them. So what are they distracting seniors from hearing? How is Andy Griffith a major tool in getting seniors to ignore major cuts in Medicare? What’s the truth? And, is there a true alternative to AARP for people 50 and older to join? We asked Dr. Hunter. Listen to the Interview Here:http://www.wjr.net/Article.asp?id=1938329&spid=6552
 NULL Bloggers Blog Posts: September 04, 2010, 04:38 PM Fed policy—call it “money-printing”, call it “liquidity injections,” call it “asset price stabilization”—has been overwhelmed by the credit contraction. At best, the Fed has been able to alleviate the worst effects of the deflation—it certainly has not turned the deflationary environment into anything resembling inflation. Therefore, talking about hyperinflation now would seem . . . well . . . crazy. Right? Wrong: The next step down in this world-historical Global Depression which we are experiencing will be hyperinflation.
September 02, 2010, 05:44 PM Republicans must show the American people a credible, concrete plan to reduce government taxes and spending, resolve the entitlement crisis and cut the national debt, reinvigorate Main Street and entrepreneurial free enterprise, repeal and replace Obamacare, control our borders, and much else. If they don't, little will change in Washington except that Republicans will then share even more of the blame with Obama and the Democrats for the disaster in the nation's capital.
August 31, 2010, 04:51 PM Washington has become little more than a sugar daddy to the states, handing out money for a whole range of needs -- health care, welfare, highways and other infrastructure needs, education, environmental concerns, and most recently bail out dollars. Ironically, the states' embrace of the handouts comes at a time when many of them are trying to reassert their rights and independence under the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. They want Washington to quite bossing them around, even as governors plead for more federal assistance. The two can't co-exist. Can States Break the Cycle of Dependency?
August 23, 2010, 06:39 PM The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last month unveiled a slick, $700,000 television commercial featuring crusty old actor Andy Griffith announcing that "more good things" are coming to seniors - thanks to Obamacare. Just add the O Force campaign logo, and the advertisement will be ready for use in the 2012 presidential race.
August 21, 2010, 04:18 PM The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built. This new world is not -- and will not be -- one global village, so much as a network of different ones.
August 20, 2010, 03:40 PM Everything that comes out of this administration, from its pronouncements on the overseas front to its own unemployment numbers, is a lie: it’s all lies, all the time. The farcical "withdrawal" from Iraq, which amounts to merely increasing the number of mercenaries in the region, is a complete fabrication, motivated by pure politics and an infinite faith in the cluelessness of the Average Joe, who is too busy looking for a job to care. As to what they’ll do when the insurgency starts to rise again, not to worry: no one will notice but the soldiers in the field. Surely the American media won’t be so rude as to point it out, unless the Green Zone goes up in flames and they have to evacuate stragglers by helicopter as they did in Vietnam. In that case, the visuals would be too good to pass up.
August 20, 2010, 03:01 PM During the past three years, the trend toward "criminalization" of everyday conduct has intensified greatly. (Criminalization is the conversion of conduct that was once considered a contractual dispute, or merely socially stigmatized, into a criminal offense.) This trend won't reverse itself until we convince lawmakers that criminal sanctions aren't necessarily the best way to deal with moral, social, or political problems and disputes.
August 20, 2010, 11:54 AM Under ObamaCare, seniors who rely on Medicare will replace Medicaid recipients at the bottom of the health-care ladder as early as 2019, five years after the individual mandate kicks in.
August 18, 2010, 08:54 AM A convergence of liberal-progressives with conservative-libertarians centering on the autocratic, corporate-dominated nature of our government may be growing. No matter how often corporatists call themselves conservatives, the two hail from very different moral, historical and intellectual antecedents. Once this slowly awakening giant of American reform shucks off the corporatists who divide, distort and deny many common identities, a dynamic civic force for freedom, fairness and prosperity will define and advance its own political and electoral agendas.
August 17, 2010, 09:06 AM The real kicker came last month when Obama enlisted the beloved Andy Griffith to star in a tax-paid TV spot allegedly designed to allay seniors' fears about Obamacare. But as FactCheck.org noted, the ad was grossly misleading and seniors' fears about Obamacare's $500 billion in Medicare Advantage spending cuts are entirely justified.
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September 2, 2010
FactCheck.org says White House and Democrats are distorting Social Security issue: "The president claims Republican leaders are as eager to 'privatize' Social Security as they are to repeal his health care law. That's not true."
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August 22, 2010
According to sources who watch the inner workings of the federal government, a smackdown of Barack Obama by the U.S. Supreme Court may be inevitable.
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August 20, 2010
Many Washington insiders predict that any 2011 debate on Social Security will focus on the issues of benefit cuts and tax increases. In addition to raising the retirement age, which is now set to reach age 67 in 2027, specific cuts under consideration include lowering benefits and trimming annual cost-of-living increases.
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August 18, 2010
The private lives of young people are now so well documented on the internet that many will have to change their names on reaching adulthood, Google’s CEO has claimed.
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August 16, 2010
President Obama claimed that Republican leaders are pushing to make "privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda" should they regain control of the House and Senate. He said this is "right up there on their to-do list with repealing" parts of the new health care law. FactCheck.org finds the president’s claim to be mostly false.
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August 16, 2010
Older workers, who typically fared better than their younger counterparts in recessions, have been hit just as hard by layoffs this time around. As a result, the fraction of people 65 or older who are working has leveled off after a long period of growth. As of July, it stood at 15.9%, down from 16.3% in mid-2008.
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