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Guest AuthorAugust 26, 2014

Opponents of raising the minimum wage should try living on that paltry $7.25 an hour. The experience might change their minds, or at least make them a little less willing to consign people to living on $290 a week. Do the math; you can’t live on $290 a week (before taxes). I had a close […]

Guest AuthorJuly 6, 2014

Driving across Alabama the other day, I heard a political candidate on the car radio proudly declaring that, if elected, he will oppose Obamacare. Really, Alabama? You’re a state that’s above average in only two ways – college football and payments from Uncle Sam. Alabama is No. 11 when it comes to total federal spending […]

Guest AuthorJune 22, 2014

Thanks to modern pharmacology, to the eternal relief of couples everywhere, his erectile dysfunction may be due to decreased blood flow, not age, and treatable — or so the advertising claims. And, happily, with judicious pill-popping they may be back in the sack to marital (or whatever) bliss, their only major fear being that an […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 27, 2014

Now that the grand bargain seems to have foundered on the rocks of political intransigence, perhaps it is time to tackle reform of the basic Social Security program. While a funding crisis is not imminent — the system is sound for well more than the next decade — the sooner corrective action is taken the less drastic […]

Martin DyckmanFebruary 4, 2014

If there’s one rule that really matters in politics, it’s this: Don’t let best be the enemy of good. Otherwise, both are likely to lose. For people who favor universal health insurance — as I do — Obamacare was a hard swallow. It falls far short of covering everybody. It’s too complex, guaranteeing that there […]

Bob SparksSeptember 9, 2013

For Baby Boomers, we are now seeing a clearer picture of the America we will leave behind in the not-too-distant future. It is a country of unimagined technical advances that provided most, but not all, of us with opportunities to advance as far as our capabilities and work ethic would lead. Scientific breakthroughs have eliminated […]

Tag: social security

Mark O’Brien: Do the math: You couldn’t live on minimum wage

Mark O’Brien: Nation’s sad new motto: Yes, we can’t

Stephen Goldstein: Boycotts are the cure for Florida’s Electoral Dysfunction

Michael Richardson: Winners and losers of privatized Social Security

Martin Dyckman: Compromise appears possible on immigration reform

Bob Sparks: Only Democrats can lead on entitlement reform