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Obama's Useless Social Security Tax Hike.(Barack Obama)(Brief article)

Article from: U.S. News & World Report Article date: November 01, 2008 Author: Pethokoukis, James

Byline: James Pethokoukis

This bit from the Cato Institute sums up the problems with Social Security and why Obama's tax hike doesn't really help ...

...like, not at all: "As we know, Social Security will begin running a deficit--paying out more in benefits than it takes in through taxes --in just nine years, by 2017. Of course, in theory, Social Security is supposed to continue paying benefits after 2017 by drawing on the Social Security Trust Fund until 2040, after which the Trust Fund will be exhausted. In reality, the Social Security Trust Fund is not an asset that ...

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Hang Onto That BlackBerry, Barack

Posted Nov 18, 08 12:10 PM CST in Politics,  Technology,  Opinion 

Hang Onto That BlackBerry, Barack
Source: PRNewsFoto/Verizon Wireless

(Newser) – This weekend was full of stories about how Barack Obama will have to give up his beloved Blackberry as president—but that’s wholly unnecessary, writes Stephen Wildstrom in BusinessWeek. The only good reason to dump the phone would be because it's a timesuck, but “Obama has shown himself to be nothing if not disciplined,” Wildstrom notes. Other arguments to lose it are “specious” or misinformed.

One concern is that anything Obama types on it could go public. But that’s true of anything he writes anywhere: “again, it's all about discipline, not technology.” As for message security, all his notes would be encrypted. But the most ridiculous concern is that “evil-doers” could locate him by his Blackberry. Finding the president isn’t difficult, Wildstrom writes; he moves “with all the subtlety of the 101 Airborne Division.”

Source: BusinessWeek

More about:  Barack Obama • BlackBerry • security • distraction

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