Talkin Social Security

[John K. Taber]

Max Sawicky wrote:
> 
> >
> >Perhaps Max or someone else can point us to some similar online resource?
> I've found bits and pieces of such info here & there, but would love to know
> about a concise central document.>
> 
> The best web site on Social Security is
> The Century Fund (formerly Twentieth
> Century Fund, and unaccountably designated
> 'American Century Fund' by greg nowell).
> Go to http://epn.org and branch out to
> TCF.  Also try the Preamble Center
> (don't have the URL handy just now).
> Regarding myths, my colleague Dean
> Baker had a piece in The Atlantic
> laying down 9 myths about SS from
> the right.  This is on the web too.
> You can find it with a search
> engine.  Dean and our bud Mark
> Weisbrot of Preamble will have a
> book out on Soc Sec next summer,
> hopefully not too late.
> 
> The Urban Institute and Brookings
> have worthwhile stuff.  They are soft
> on privatization but relatively objective
> in their analyses.  Particularly good is
> Burtless and Bosworth's paper on the
> Brookings site (www.brookings.org).
> 
> MBS

Max, I scrounge thru those sites all the time on the q v for material 
to use. Sometimes they are very useful. But at the level I'm arguing, 
they are too respectably academic. Nobody in academia seriously 
maintains that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme at least not that I 
have read. So, none of them addresses that particular disinformation 
head on. It simply is not an issue for an academic audience.

But Ponzi scheme is one of the BIG issues at the level I contend with.

All the arguments against social security absolutely depend upon the
ignorance of the public. 

-- 
I've been able to string more words into fewer ideas than anybody I
know, and I'm continuing to do that.

     - Alan Greenspan to the Senate Budget Committee, Sept 23, 1998