Wall Street Throws Disabled off a Cliff

joining us on the line now to discuss this and other matters that he has written about recently is more came senior editor of the not safer were corporation the future of journalism with jokes like urge everyone to check that it has a w corp dot com mark is also the author of going postal rigid *** and rebellion from reagan's workplace the clintons combine and beyond that this was an interesting week so the issue of social insurance because it seemed to me in some ways god this is my thesis that we were saying the best of times and the worst of times earlier in the week the new america foundation which also has within it one of the peterson funded austerity pushing groups the committee's responsible federal budget another branch of then the the sort of strategy in on the growth program led by michael lind released a report calling for across-the-board increases in social security benefits a-flat eleven thousand dollar increase called insulin exo street port uh... so st p_e_ will be based on your uh... your earnings history would just be a flat increase which of course means it will be more segovia people lower and middle and and it was received actually pretty well in the mainstream media this was sort of this has been actually oldest a lot of progress on this front of looking at social security or again which is of course are cash benefit retirement security and disability income program in this country that has been around since the nineteen thirties and of course i was this close that i'm the policy to reduce or security words are in the week just to make clear any companies of interest that i might have and event this seemed to me it was it was part of a pattern the public has yet also send is no longer hot stuff in congress no one wants to talk to you there kantor talks about economic growth not not so much of a focus on on spending cuts josh barrow the lead writer for bloomberg view a professor of public and who voted for mitt romney's came out in favor of expanding soc tree benefits *** blacks to be naturalist calmness u_s_a_ today though of course he is a liberal so it's a little bit less surprising it seemed like the conversation at least some quarters because of the media was finally catching up to where the public and always bed this is an issue of retirement security and and that and that the sort of austerity camp of cuts cuts cause for the sake of billionaires millionaires was finally sort of losing steam and in fact that was and i felt like the npr piece last week that was caught sort of covering the disability at the softer disability program of the supplemental security income program which is really for people that have know other income uh... was kind of like the last last guests of of a dying campaign to cut america's social insurance programs but then president obama came out and sort of uh... i gave them a new life