August 12
...serving up your daily dish.
Everything you always wanted to know about sex social security, or specifically how "What You Don't Know May End You Up in the Poor House!" is the topic of an information forum at Bloomfield Public Library, 90 Broad Street on Tuesday, August 16, at 7 pm. Presentations will include:
What Does Social Security Really Mean?
Who's Covered? How Is It Funded? How Might It Be Changed? What Is the Bush Proposal? What Are Alternative Proposals? How Does It All Affect You?
A lively (our word) Q & A session will follow the presentations; the forum will be conducted by BlueWave NJ. No reservations needed; light refreshments served.
Did you know that this weekend marks Social Security's 70th birthday.
Send an e-birthday card and find out how you can celebrate and protect America's most sucessful social program.
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Posted by: arnie | Aug 12, 2005 2:48:17 PM
That's gotta be a fun one. Fondly do I remember the SS debates on this site....
Oh by the way, I'm back....
Posted by: Marshall | Aug 12, 2005 4:57:48 PM
I couldnt have thunk of a better Idea myself!
Look how well socialist countries have fared in the past.
Posted by: Karl Marx | Aug 12, 2005 9:03:35 PM
And I'm ever so sure that a bluewaveNJ presentation will be non-partisan and chockful of information so attendees can make up their own minds. As sure as I am that it'll be (the barista's word) "lively."
Posted by: cathar | Aug 12, 2005 10:50:52 PM
Welcome back, Marshall. Are you in Baristaville? So what are you doing with your life? Do you have the world by the cojones? Are you dating four women at once? What's it like out there? We boring middle-aged has-been never-was's want to know.
Odd that you'd make your return in a thread on soc sec, no?
Posted by: walleroo | Aug 12, 2005 11:07:11 PM
It's a trade off, Karl. We have more dough but no security and crappy health care, and we work our butts off. But I have no energy for this debate. I'm so tired. ROC, where are you? Come back...
Posted by: walleroo | Aug 12, 2005 11:12:20 PM
Karl never lacked for money. He married a baroness, remember. Then refused to give his daughter, Tussy, an allowance (who subsequently died poor). He knew nothing about the means of production (certainly doesn't say much about it in Das Kapital, he was not the guy to build or even operate a better mousetrap), but he was never one in his personal life to share the fruits of production.
Posted by: cathar | Aug 13, 2005 11:15:49 AM
"crappy" health care?
now thats a laugh. crappy if your dont work... best care in the world... move to another country and you will swallow those words.
Posted by: Karl Marx | Aug 13, 2005 5:27:52 PM
"Americans tend to believe that we have the best health care system in the world. (I've encountered members of the journalistic elite who flatly refuse to believe that France ranks much better on most measures of health care quality than the United States.) But it isn't true. We spend far more per person on health care than any other country - 75 percent more than Canada or France - yet rank near the bottom among industrial countries in indicators from life expectancy to infant mortality."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/opinion/11krugman4.html?hp
Posted by: Chris | Aug 14, 2005 8:20:52 AM
So true, Chris. Money spent on health care does not equal health. There's an excellent book out on this topic called PRESCRIPTION FOR A HEALTHY NATION by Dr. Tom Farley and Deborah A. Cohen (Beacon Press).
Posted by: Miss Martta | Aug 14, 2005 6:41:47 PM
