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Aging
Social Security 'Problems' Are 'Misplaced Scare Tactics' and Media Missing Story of Solvency, Says Former Congressional Aging Committee Chief of Staff Bob Weiner
May 29th, 2009
The reports on the supposed problems of Social Security based on the Social Security Administration's report are "totally misplaced," asserts former U.S. House Aging Committee Director Bob Weiner. Weiner, who was Chief of Staff of the House Aging Committee under Rep. Claude Pepper and later worked for Reps. Charles Rangel, John Conyers, and the Clinton White House, said, "Everyone forgets that Social Security has already absorbed eleven 'deficit' years since 1960. The fact that there may be slight deficits beginning in 2016, which the full trust funds easily absorb for some thirty years, is nothing new. That is exactly what beneficiaries paid into the system to...
Source: Health Business Week (2009-05-29)
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