Social Security News 5-15-12

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MyFDL (Blog)

LIVESTREAM: Sen. Sanders Speaks Out Against Pete Peterson's Fiscal Summit

05-15-12

Alex Lawson

The austerity protest is sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future, Health Care for America Now, Progressives United, CREDO Action, Social Security Works, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the National Committee to Protect Social Security and Medicare, and the National Organization for Women.

 

http://my.firedoglake.com/socialsecurityworks/2012/05/15/livestream-sen-sanders-speaks-out-against-pete-petersons-fiscal-summit/

Huffington Post (NAT)

Peter Peterson Spent Nearly Half A Billion In Washington Targeting Social Security, Medicare

05-15-12

Ryan Grim & Paul Blumenthal

WASHINGTON -- Peter Peterson, a Wall Street billionaire who has been calling for cuts to Social Security and other government programs for years, is hosting a "fiscal summit" Tuesday that brings together Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, former President Bill Clinton, Rep. Paul Ryan, House Speaker John Boehner, Tom Brokaw and Politico's John Harris, among a host of other elites who will gather at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium. The bipartisan luminaries will be carrying on a discussion to a large extent framed by Peterson, who has spent lavishly to shape a national conversation focusing on the deficit rather than on jobs and economic growth.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/15/peter-peterson-foundation-half-billion-social-security-cuts_n_1517805.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger

 

MSNBC (NAT)

First Read - Possible VP contenders decry fiscal woes at summit

05-15-12

Alex Moe

Two potential Republican vice presidential contenders had the same warning Tuesday afternoon: it is time to fix the country’s fiscal problems now.Addressing the 2012 Fiscal Summit, both Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan said the econo

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/15/11719518-possible-vp-contenders-decry-fiscal-woes-at-summit?lite

 

ABC News (NAT)

Bill Clinton Advises Obama to Talk More About Deficit Reduction

05-15-12

Chris Good

The former president said he favors overhaul resembling the Simpson-Bowles plan, produced by Obama’s bipartisan commission to address the deficit. Clinton suggested there should be a “big bipartisan coalition for this,” in reference to centrist-deficit reforms. “We may just have to wait until the election’s over. The American people are going to have to decide.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/bill-clinton-advises-obama-to-talk-more-about-deficit-reduction/

 

Huffington Post (NAT)

Indentured Servitude for Seniors: Social Security Garnished for Student Debts

05-15-12

Ellen Brown

U.S. taxpayers now pay nearly half a trillion dollars annually to finance our federal debt.  By financing the debt itself rather than paying interest to private parties, the government could divert what it would have paid in interest into tuition, jobs, infrastructure and social services.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-brown/social-security_b_1504039.html

 

The Hill (NAT)

Geithner warns Boehner not to play with next deal to increase the debt ceiling -

05-15-12

Erik Wasson

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Tuesday warned House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) against playing with the U. S.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/227393-geithner-warns-boehner-not-to-play-with-debt-ceiling-again

 

Huffington Post (NAT)

Talking With Krugman: He's Anti-Austerity, Pro-Peter Gabriel, and "Not That Cosmic"

05-15-12

Richard (RJ) Eskow

Paul Krugman's book is called End This Depression Now! (exclamation point included).  If that sounds like a self-help book -- the sequel to Listening to Prozac, maybe, or something by Dr. Wayne Dyer -- that's not altogether inappropriate in this age of collective near-despair.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/talking-with-krugman-hes_b_1518209.html

 

Politico (DC)

Bill Clinton: Hike taxes across the board

05-15-12

MJ Lee

Bill Clinton said Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s goal of hiking taxes on the rich alone is not enough to solve the country’s fiscal woes and suggested that middle class Americans must also eventually contribute more. Clinton, who discussed a number of economic and political issues at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s third...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76326.html

 

ABC News (NAT)

Boehner to Obama: Cuts Must Exceed Next Debt-Limit Hike

05-15-12

John Parkinson

At an address to the Peter G. Peterson Fiscal Summit later today, House Speaker John Boehner will call on President Obama to “again meet the principle of cuts greater than the hike” on any agreement to a looming debt-limit increase, which is expected during the lame-duck session after the election. “When the time comes, I will again insist on my simple principle of cuts and reforms greater than the debt-limit increase,” Boehner, R-Ohio, will say, according to excerpts provided by his office. “This is the only avenue I see right now to force the elected leadership of this country to…

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/boehner-to-obama-cuts-must-exceed-next-debt-limit-hike/

 

 

 

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Associated Press (NAT)

Geithner: Bank rules will be heavily influenced by JPMorgan –

05-15-12

Andrew Taylor

Treasury secretary says Federal Reserve, SEC and administration are "going to take a very careful look" at JPMorgan incident.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/story/2012-05-15/geithner-jpmorgan-bank-rules/54970278/1

 

The New York Times (NAT)

Politics Seen in Obama’s Same-Sex Marriage Support

05-14-12

Peter Baker and Dalia Sussman

A New York Times and CBS News poll released on Monday suggests the impact of President Obama’s decision was undercut by the unplanned way it became public.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/us/politics/poll-sees-obama-gay-marriage-support-motivated-by-politics.html?_r=2

 

The Washington Post (NAT)

Is the filibuster unconstitutional?

05-15-12

Ezra Klien

One of America’s top lawyers thinks so.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/is-the-filibuster-unconstitutional/2012/05/15/gIQAYLp7QU_blog.html

 

The Washington Post (NAT)

John Edwards unaware of payments to conceal affair, defense lawyers say; Cate Edwards may testify

05-15-12

Manuel Roig-Franzia

John Edwards’s defense attorneys argue that Edwards didn’t know about payments made to conceal his affair with Rielle Hunter.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/attorneys-john-edwards-unaware-of-payments/2012/05/15/gIQAYljdRU_story.html

 

The New Yorker (NAT)

Salman Rushdie's PEN World Voices Lecture on Censorship

05-15-12

No writer ever really wants to talk about censorship. Writers want to talk about creation, and censorship is anti-creation, negative energy, uncreation, the bringing into being of non-being, or, to use Tom Stoppard’s description of death, “the absence of...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/05/on-censorship-salman-rushdie.html

 

Yahoo News (NAT)

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez on Romney: ‘Hispanics have been alienated during this campaign’

05-15-12

Chris Moddy

From the blog The Ticket: Mitt Romney recently name-dropped New Mexico Republican Gov. Susana Martinez as a possible pick to be his running mate. But first, the popular state executive may have some things to teach him about outreach to Hispanics. In an interview with Newsweek's Andrew Romano, Martinez criticized Romney's approach to wooing Hispanic voters during the campaign, in [...]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mexico-gov-susana-martinez-romney-hispanics-alienated-during-144746149.html