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• Understanding Social Security, the Trust Fund, and Future Benefits

  For most people it's TMI--- Too Much Information. In recent weeks, one reader confidently informed me that Social Security has no unfunded liabilities "because it is a pay-as-you-go program." Another reader wrote that future benefits wouldn't be threatened... Posted Jul 20 2004, 12:18 PM by scottb with | with no comments Filed under: Government, Taxes & Other Disasters, Medicare & Generational Storm, Social Security

• Mother, Daughter, Granddaughter

  It was a simple column. A woman in her late fifties asked if I could "explain today's economic realities to an 86 year-old." The 86 year-old was her mother. So I detailed some of the differences between generations. A torrent of reader rage followed.... Posted Jun 10 2003, 11:48 AM by scottb with | with no comments Filed under: Government, Taxes & Other Disasters, Medicare & Generational Storm, Retirement