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In Debt Talks, Social Security Cuts Are on the Table (The Atlantic)
" On Social Security, it's unclear if Obama is willing to raise the retirement age or merely accept changes in inflation-adjustment calculations that would reduce benefits but not alter the program's basic architecture. "
pension-privatization 
july 2011 by kellyramsey
The 60 Plus Association: A Corporate Assault in "Good-for-Seniors" Clothing (Anne Landman, Center for Media and Democracy)
" in its 2001 tax returns, 60 Plus failed to list any revenue from membership dues, and that virtually all of its contributions came from the nation's pharmaceutical industry. Similarly, on its most recent publicly-available IRS filing from 2008 available from Guidestar, the group reports income of over $1.8 million, with none of it coming from membership dues. "
astroturfing  pension-privatization 
september 2010 by kellyramsey
Anti-AARP group set for launch (Sarah Kliff, Politico)
" Social Security Institute President Larry Hunter, a longtime Republican adviser, will launch the for-profit Alliance for Retirement Prosperity on Wednesday, representing a $5 million conservative challenge to the AARP. "
pension-privatization  astroturfing 
september 2010 by kellyramsey
What Bush Didn't Say About Social Security (Allan Sloan @ Washington Post)
"Paying less Social Security tax would reduce your future Social Security retirement benefit,... low-income people - who get much more in benefits per dollar of Soc. Sec. tax than maxed-out folks do - would see benefits shrink by a far higher percentage."
welfare-retrenchment  pension-privatization 
february 2007 by kellyramsey
Sen. Baucus to tackle health care costs (Mary Clare Jalonick, AP)
"The incoming chairman of the Senate Finance Committee... said President Bush's plan to partially privatize Social Security is dead. "Don't waste our time," said Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana. "It's off the table.""
pension-privatization 
november 2006 by kellyramsey
Alternative Minimum Tax Targeted (Lori Montgomery @ Washington Post)
N.B. the crisis framing in this ostensibly objective article: "a variety of ticking time bombs set to explode soon after the 2008 presidential election, including the AMT, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare."
pension-privatization  journalism  information-ethics  framing 
november 2006 by kellyramsey
Treasury Chief Set to Seek Deals (Steven R. Weisman, New York Times)
"Democrats say that if the Treasury chief revives Mr. Bush’s emphasis on private investment accounts, as a partial replacement for Social Security for future retirees, it will be rejected - and seen as an act of bad faith."
pension-privatization 
november 2006 by kellyramsey
Building a Nest Egg for You and Your Grandchildren: The 7.65% Solution [1.35M PDF] (American Institute for Full Employment)
A 2004 book put out by Richard L. Wendt's American Institute for Full Employment (of which For Our Grandchildren is a subsidiary), advocating the personal accounts proposal. Favorable blurbs from FreedomWorks, NCPA, and ICPR.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  framing 
november 2006 by kellyramsey
The 7.65% Solution (Social Security) (first draft of entry at Wikipedia)
This is the initial version of the "7.65% solution" article on Wikipedia, dated 2005 October 18. The anonymous contributor (IP 70.103.236.194) is clearly a dedicated believer in the proposal, and clearly in dire need of writing help.
pension-privatization  information-ethics  framing 
november 2006 by kellyramsey
The 7.65% Solution for Retirement Security (Chris Kinnan @ FreedomWorks)
"Check out this new web site, America is Listening,... Many of the folks in the video are FreedomWorks members– great work!"
pension-privatization  interest-groups  information-ethics  framing 
november 2006 by kellyramsey
Florida FreedomWorks "Own Your Future Tour" continues in Delray Beach! (2006 May 30) (FreedomWorks press release)
"FreedomWorks Florida State Director John Hallman spoke to the Delray Beach Womens Republican Club... John distributed the 7.65 solution brochure to the audience and urged everybody to read how we can fix both Social Security and Medicare."
pension-privatization  interest-groups  framing 
november 2006 by kellyramsey
America Is Listening
Joint project of the American Institute for Full Employment and FreedomWorks, and perhaps others. Advocates a private accounts "7.65% solution" for Social Security policy. The site does not identify its owners or backers in any way, disturbingly.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  information-ethics  framing 
november 2006 by kellyramsey
How Generous Is The Federal Government To Seniors? (@ National Center for Policy Analysis)
A variant of generational crisis framing, arguing that boomer retirees are scheduled to receive "surprisingly generous" benefits and so consequently are not as vulnerable a population / not as deserving of protection as is currently paradigmatic.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
The Fiscal WakeUp Tour Comes to Chicago (Concord Coalition, press release)
The Concord Coalition is also part of the "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour", which evidently is "a nationwide series of town hall forums on the nation's long-term fiscal challenge".
pension-privatization  interest-groups  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Fiscal roadshow warns Americans of trouble ahead (Matt Crenson @ AP)
Brookings, Heritage, and the American Enterprise Institute take fiscal constraint arguments to the public on a "fiscal wake-up tour". How, exactly, this article doesn't really say; this article gives the impression of itself being a vehicle of the tour.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  framing  journalism 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
[Union] Seniors back Murphy (Scott Whipple, New Britain Herald)
"Chris Murphy, Democratic candidate for the 5th Congressional District, was endorsed by the [AFL-CIO subsidiary] Alliance for Retired Americans Thursday." Also backed by AFSCME.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
A false sense of security (Matthew Singer, Ventura County Reporter)
Small protest of Rep. Gallegly's not having discussed Social Security with some constituents. Note this article's uncritical reliance on ratings from AFL-CIO subsidiary Alliance for Retired Americans as an indicator of Rep. Gallegly's senior record.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  journalism 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Republican Boehner Says Bush Still Faces Social Security Hurdle (Bob Willis, Bloomberg)
Note the article's identification of Social Security among "other entitlement programs", and the use of 2017 (when expenditures will begin to deplete the trust fund as planned) rather than 2040 as the benchmark date.
pension-privatization  framing  journalism 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Revival of Social Security Privatization Proposal Threatens Working Families, Says AFGE National Social Security Council (press release)
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) comes out against private accounts.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Congressional Candidates [in the closest races] Not Supporting Social Security Private Accounts (@ Senior Journal)
Take this with a large grain of salt. Alternate hypothesis: candidates in the closest races this article refers to are simply trying to avoid taking as many potentially polarizing positions as possible in order to maximize their appeal.
pension-privatization  framing  information-ethics 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Accounting Games: The New Way to Cut Social Security (Dean Baker @ American Prospect)
"It looks to me like another backhanded way to build support for cutting Social Security and Medicare by people who refuse to address the real source of the problem -- the projected explosion in U.S. health care costs."
pension-privatization  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
A Changing Record On Social Security (David Lightman, Hartford Courant)
Lieberman's positions before 2006.
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
New Haven Independent: Social Security Rears Head in Debate (Melissa Bailey, New Haven Independent)
Lieberman's position in 2006: "I am against social security privatization, and I will do everything I can as long as God gives me life to protect social security because a lot of seniors depend on it."
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Independent groups increase advertising (Jim Kuhnhenn, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
"In New Jersey, the Republican-leaning Free Enterprise Fund began airing an ad on Wednesday that portrays a "Sopranos"-like character seeking to protect Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez from his challenger Tom Kean Jr."
pension-privatization  interest-groups  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Social Security issue requires close examination (Hannis Pieper @ Evansville Courier Press)
Refreshingly, asks several hard and necessary questions about societal priorities, what would happen to people who invest poorly, how much brokering fees would cost, where the money would come from, etc.
pension-privatization  framing  punditry  damn-straight 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Social Security has candidates at odds (Jessica Robertson, Baytown Sun)
A poor synopsis of trust fund operation. Green opposes private accounts. Story: “I really believe the ability to privatize a portion of Social Security is the absolute best plan,”
pension-privatization  campaigning  journalism 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Scaring Seniors on Social Security (Annenberg Political Fact Check)
"What the Democrats actually support, however, is the AARP's approach to addressing Social Security's enormous deficit by making "modest adjustments in _future_ benefits" and getting "additional contributions from higher-income workers." "
pension-privatization  campaigning  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
New ad campaign exposes two faces of Harold Ford (Rich Lowry, National Review)
The Free Enterprise Fund is running ads against Ford in Tennessee.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Warning: A fiscal storm is brewing (Jeff Thiebert, Concord Coalition @ Lufkin Daily News)
Scary scary debt alarmism. Interestingly, mentions Social Security first among a list of federal expenditures (with Medicare, Medicaid, and debt interest), as if it were part of a unified budget, and omits military expenditures.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Senate hopefuls spar one last time (Jerry Cornfield, Washington Daily Herald)
Cantwell laments that Congress didn't take up Social Security as an issue in 2001. McGavick advocates private accounts.
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Rove associate backs group sponsoring ad attacking Lamont (Don Michak, Journal Inquirer)
The Free Enterprise Fund is running ads against Lamont (but not Lieberman) in Connecticut.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Going Up: Americans' Social Security Checks (AP)
Spin #2: "Social Security checks for nearly 49 million Americans are going up by 3.3 percent next year, which will mean an extra $33 per month in the average check, the government announced Wednesday."
pension-privatization  journalism  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Social Security cost-of-living adjustment expected to be lower (AP)
Spin #1: "The nation's nearly 49 million Social Security recipients are in line to get a smaller average increase in their monthly benefit checks in 2007 than they did this year, though less of the gain will be eaten up by rising Medicare premiums."
pension-privatization  journalism  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Outside groups run ads in Montana Senate race (Noelle Straub, Helena Independent Record)
The Free Enterprise Fund and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are running ads in Montana and elsewhere. Interestingly, Americans United is also running ads in Montana about gas prices.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Fossella on Social Security in 2002 (@ CNN Crossfire)
"the president is on the right side of history here. ... the more your empower American people, the more you give them the opportunity to invest on their own and being in control of their own destiny and their own retirement, the better off we'll be."
pension-privatization  campaigning  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Joe vs. Joe on Social Security (Ned Lamont for Senate press release)
Lieberman evidently spoke in support of private accounts in 1998 ("has to happen"), 2000, and 2005 ("great"). Lists sources.
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
David & Goliath race in the 8th (Joel Barrett, Stanly News and Press)
Kissell demagogues nonsensically about "a government that raids our Social Security coffers to pay for its expansion," followed by "then threatens to 'fix' Social Security in the manner it 'fixed' Medicare. Not on my watch,"
pension-privatization  campaigning  inexpert-policymakers 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Q&A: 8th Congressional District (Illinois Daily Herald)
Bean opposes personal accounts, but frames Social Security as "facing solvency challenges" and something that Congress must "modernize". McSweeney misinterprets how trust fund bonds work and favors personal accounts.
pension-privatization  campaigning  inexpert-policymakers 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Personal journeys fuel bitter 1st District race (Des Moines Register)
Whalen supports private accounts, making health care [Whalen's words] "private, personal and protable". Bradley opposes private accounts, supports [article's words] "taking steps toward universal health care".
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
TCS Daily: Technology Commerce Society (formerly TechCentralStation)
Free market / libertarian op-ed clearinghouse and discussion board. Commentators have argued Social Security crisis frames, promoted "ownership society" variants, and promoted private accounts proposals.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Santorum / Casey Debate (Above Average Jane)
Santorum barely manages to articulate his consistent (and 60 Plus Association approved) support for private accounts. Casey demagogues a nonsensical appeal to "stop thievery from Social Security trust fund".
pension-privatization  campaigning  inexpert-policymakers 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Social Security reform needed to protect young workers (Robery Bosch @ Evansville Courier Press)
Generational crisis framing: "Personal accounts are by far the most powerful way to equalize the decline in the number of workers with the increase in retirees." A Scripps newspaper.
pension-privatization  framing  punditry 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Smither says he'll be 'independent voice' (Bob Smither @ Galveston County Daily News)
Candidate Smither: "After honoring the government’s promises to those in the system, Americans should be given the freedom to opt out and plan their own retirements free of government intervention."
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
GOP Illegal Immigrant 'Social Security' Claim Debunked (BBSNews)
"Republicans are tagging Democratic opponents across the country for wanting to "give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants." But nobody's proposing paying benefits to illegals, not until and unless they become US citizens."
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
War fears drown out Democrats' message (Andrew Greeley @ Albany Times Union)
"in one House district in the Chicago area, the Republican candidate says on every possible occasion that his opponent... wants to give $6 billion of Social Security money to illegal immigrants. The allegation is absurd but effective."
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Is that a fact? Kennedy ad claim about Klobuchar position is false (Eric Black, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
"Under existing law, Social Security already pays benefits to retirees who have legal status in retirement, for work done when they were illegal, if they can demonstrate that they paid the FICA payroll taxes that support Social Security."
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
First Cantwell, McGavick debate echoes themes of TV ads (John K. Wiley, Daily News Online)
Another use of the related "my opponent is a threat to Social Security because he/she wants to give away Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants" campaign theme.
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Pavich, Weller square off on radio (Jonathan Bilyk, My Web Times)
"Pavich called for Congress to "remove all talk of privatization"... [and] to keep the program,... solvent. Weller said he did not favor personal accounts, but would seek a plan that would... "guarantee a minimum benefit" without raising taxes."
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Social Security Reform is Simply a Diversion [2005 May 02] (Robert B. Reich @ USA Today)
"Why still flog it? Because Social Security is a place holder. As long as it remains on the domestic agenda, it blocks consideration of the real domestic crisis President Bush doesn't want to touch: the health care system."
pension-privatization 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Devil is in the details (John Finnerty, The Daily Item)
"The Guardian of Seniors' Rights award, is a top honor from the 60 Plus Association, and was presented to Sen. Santorum for his work to protect Social Security and Medicare." 60 Plus advocates private accounts.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Senate Campaign Accusations Fly (Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant)
Lieberman framed Social Security as crisis in 2005 March ("Every year we wait to come up with a solution to the Social Security problem costs our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren $600 billion more.").
pension-privatization  campaigning  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Young Adults Lose Faith in Bush Plan For Retirement [2005 Mar 31] (William E. Gibson, South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
Same Brendan Lynch, Young Republican, on personal accounts: "I am very much in favor of it, but the elderly are such a large portion of those who actually vote in the United States, and they get scared any time you talk about changing Social Security,"
pension-privatization  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Being 'cheap' pays off for many young adults (Jamie Malernee, South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
Note the generational crisis framing from private accounts supporter Brendan Lynch. Note also that the article's source about young people's Social Security attitudes is a survey from an investment firm.
pension-privatization  framing  journalism 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Think-tank and media outlet. Run by Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot. Funded by non-conservative foundations. Active during Bush's 2005 private accounts push, debunking crisis framing and assessing the costs of private accounts.
pension-privatization  interest-groups 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Fiction on the Social Security Trust Fund [2006 Jun 16] (Dean Baker, truthout)
"Under the law, the trust fund must be held in US government bonds. Government bonds are not very mysterious - ... The Social Security privatizers try to make this process sound strange or confusing."
pension-privatization  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Employee Benefit Research Institute
Think-tank "to contribute to, to encourage, and to enhance the development of sound employee benefit programs and sound public policy through objective research and education." Funded by numerous investment firms and insurance companies.
pension-privatization  interest-groups 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Seniors' Social Security Must be Preserved (Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV) @ Huntington News)
Rahall notes that he signed the "Golden Promise" petition; lauds Americans United, Alliance for Retired Americans / AFL-CIO, and AARP; and engages in credit-claiming for a (symbolic?) bill to limit increases in Medicare premiums.
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Chafee is not a Liberal (@ Rhode Island's Future)
"When President Bush was advocating a phase-out of Social Security I tried for months to get a straight answer out of Senator Chafee’s office as to where he stood on the President’s plan. I’m still waiting."
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
The Deficit: The WaPo Gets It Mostly Wrong (Pat Cleary @ National Association of Manufacturers)
Cleary / NAM frames Social Security as a looming crisis and again promotes the For Our Grandchildren / AIFE expand-the-policy-agenda pledge.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
The Script for the War on the Middle Class (De Thezier @ Cyborg Democracy)
Quotes Noam Chomsky: "If working people depend on the stock market for their pensions, health care, and other means of survival, they have a stake in undermining their own interests... in a manner reminiscent of feudalism...''
pension-privatization  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Cutting Social Security on the Brain? (Dean Baker @ American Prospect)
”Social Security can pay all scheduled benefits for the next 40 years... What makes Social Security a major issue, except the fact that some people (perhaps including our NYT commentator) want to privatize and/or cut it?"
pension-privatization  framing  punditry 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Progress for America (entry at SourceWatch)
Here's yet one more for CBS WDEF-TV 12 of Chattanooga, TN. In 2005, while a trustee for the Social Security Administration, Thomas R. Saving joined the pro-private accounts Progress for America as an advisor and spokesman.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  journalism 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Avalanche of Cash Is Set to Descend on Election Battle (Josh Gerstein, New York Sun)
Progress for America's financial backing from millionaire entrepreneurs and heirs, shuffling of accounts to render sources of ad funding untraceable for at least a year, and links to Republican consulting firm DCI Group.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Conservative group campaigning with ads, e-mails and "United 93" (Jim Kuhnhenn, AP)
""We're looking for ways to grow the amount of people we communicate with directly,"said Stuart Roy,a GOP consultant for Progress for America. The organization is being financed by a handful of wealthy donors, including Univision founder Andrew Perenchi."
pension-privatization  interest-groups  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Abramoff Ties May Jeopardize Nonprofits' Tax Status (Tom Hamburger, Los Angeles Times)
"The National Center for Public Policy Research used money from Abramoff clients to pay for travel in 2000 and 2003 to Scotland for members of Congress. The details of that organization's involvement in the trip had come to light previously."
pension-privatization  interest-groups 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Progress for America Set to Spend $35 Million (NewsMax)
"The conservative group Progress for America is poised to spend $35 million to help Republicans maintain control of Congress in the November elections."
pension-privatization  campaigning  interest-groups 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Christians and Big Government (Dick Armey @ Hawaii Reporter)
Libertarian appeal to the religious: "By reducing the tax burden on families, we make it easier for Christian households to tithe or for young mothers to stay home to raise their children. The same is true for retirement security based on ownership."
pension-privatization  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Report Says Nonprofits Sold Influence to Abramoff (James V. Grimaldi, Susan Schmidt, Washington Post)
Including Americans for Tax Reform and the National Center for Public Policy Research. Abramoff "leveraged the stature of the organizations to build support among conservatives for legislation or government action sought by [corporate] clients".
pension-privatization  interest-groups 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Democrats ask TV stations to pull political ad (Michael C. Bender, Palm Beach Post)
"the ad that criticizes one of Democratic candidate Tim Mahoney's answers on the AARP survey. ... The NRCC is airing a similar ad in a Pennsylvania House race, as are GOP candidates in Colorado and Arizona."
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Mahoney: Fix Social Security (Michael C. Bender, Palm Beach Post)
"The National Republican Campaign Committee spent $244,300, according to Federal Elections Commission records, on a districtwide ad in an attempt to portray Mahoney's ideas for Social Security as "dangerous." "
pension-privatization  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Nelson, Ricketts Clash Over Social Security (Sioux City, IA NBC KTIV 4)
"In South Sioux City, today, the head of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare backed Nelson and presented him with a pair of boxing gloves to help Nelson "fight" for older Americans... and their social security benefits."
pension-privatization  interest-groups  campaigning 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
African-Americans Deserve More from Social Security (Malcolm Moore, NCPPR @ BlackNews)
Op-ed from Malcolm Moore of the pro-private accounts think-tank and media outlet National Center for Public Policy Research. Previously published by DogonVillage (*last year*, 2005 July 22), the Chicago Defender (Sep 21), and NCPPR.
pension-privatization  interest-groups  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Deficit spending and Social Security (Ron Paul @ SmallGov Times)
Severe misinterpretation of the trust fund's operation, leading to: "I introduced legislation to end this terrible practice. Under my bill, HR 219, your Social Security contributions are set aside in an interest-bearing account and cannot be spent."
pension-privatization  framing  inexpert-policymakers 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Save Now, Save Later (editorial @ Bangor Daily News)
"Moderates looking for a way to confront the long-term problem of the retirement benefit should be especially interested. ... intergenerational tradeoffs,... can be mitigated in two related ways - increasing savings and reducing the deficit."
pension-privatization  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Social insecurity and an ailing Medicare system (editorial @ Anderson Independent Mail)
Claims that fear is widespread among Boomers over the stability of Social Security (sources?) and casually notes worries "about government promises being broken" (which might happen how?). A Scripps newspaper.
pension-privatization  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Sean Mussenden at Media General News Service
Mussenden's career at Media General mid-2005 to present, with the blurb "He concentrates on issues that affect the elderly and the young." There aren't many issues about which anyone claims that, are there? Links to various op-ed pieces for Media General.
pension-privatization  framing  punditry 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
My Retirement Plan: Me, Not Social Security [2005 Jul 04] (Sean Mussenden @ Media General News Service)
Mussenden, framing similarly to 18 to 35 / Third Millennium during Bush's 2005 private accounts push: "No one my age expects the federal government to finance their retirement, at least no one I’ve met."
pension-privatization  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
U.S. encourages younger workers to save for retirement [2006 Aug 25] (Sean Mussenden @ Media General News Service)
Lauding the Pension Protection Act of 2006, Mussenden again sounds the 18 to 35 / Third Millennium frame: "Unlike previous generations, we can't base our retirement income on the guaranteed monthly payout traditional pensions offer."
pension-privatization  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
A Modest Proposal [2006 Sep 27] (Sean Mussenden @ First Steps, Media General News Service)
Sounds much like 18 to 35 / Third Millennium: "If you’ve spent any time reading the First Steps blog, you know that young workers shouldn’t count on receiving Social Security or Medicare during retirement. ..."
pension-privatization  framing 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
The writers behind the curtain [2005 Mar 20] (Bruce Potter, Publisher @ News Virginian)
Notes that "All Media General newspapers do support some basic editorial values", among them: "Individual freedom and responsibility", "Self-determination", "Free enterprise", and "Fiscal conservatism". Interesting.
journalism  pension-privatization  interest-groups 
october 2006 by kellyramsey
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