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SusaninIowa

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post More on Raising the Medicare Eligibility Age

    2012-12-13 16:16:17View | Delete

    I hope you will continue to write about these issues. Maybe you can give Yves some content now and then if not here.

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post A Programming Note

    2012-12-06 09:32:26View | Delete

    I read your news diaries every day. You have great political insights and I appreciate your work very much. The diaries on the mortgage mess have been particularly enlightening for me. I thank you for all your work and wish you well.

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post Democrats Angling to Ignore Base in Fiscal Slope Deal

    2012-11-27 11:50:05View | Delete

    social insurance

    We pay the premiums and collect when we retire.

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post Liberal Groups Fighting Grand Bargain – For Now

    2012-11-09 12:55:08View | Delete

    Where is AARP?

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post Labor Gets Out the Vote, Now Shifts Directly to Organizing Against a Grand Bargain

    2012-11-08 15:04:02View | Delete

    Maybe what Trumka is saying is less about the President, and more about sending a warning to Congress on the 2014 election. Any Grand Bargain will need votes from Democrats.

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post Obama: Sequester Cuts to Defense “Will Not Happen”

    2012-10-23 06:47:31View | Delete

    My guess is: cuts to social insurance programs served up in the lame duck session, along with a few token increases in taxes that will be reversed as soon as the lobbyists get to work next year.

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    SusaninIowa commented on the diary post The Chicago Teachers Strike and the Privatization of a Generation by John E Jacobsen.

    2012-09-26 14:13:15View | Delete

    Chicago teachers are legally barred from negotiating over anything except wage/benefit issues. They took a risk by holding out for other changes. The Reformers got the state legislature to pass the 75% strike vote and wage/benefit issues only so they could break the union and make them look like Greedy Women.

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Chris Hayes, Twilight Of The Elites: America After Meritocracy

    2012-06-20 12:27:01View | Delete

    I am waiting for your book to arrive, so I just want to say thank you for what you are doing to illuminate difficult and important issues on television. Your shows around the financial/mortgage mess–including bits with Bill Black, Alexis Goldstein, Eric Schneiderman, and Carolyn Maloney–were riveting. (You should get our host on to talk about it with Neil Barofsky and Yves Smith one of these days.) You could not have imagined an institutional failure more grotesque than what has actually happened, with the banks sailing off with their free passes for criminal behavior and the atrocities still going on.

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post The Real Foreclosure Fraud Story: Corruption of the Land Title System

    2012-04-19 16:27:53View | Delete

    “I must confess that I don’t throw this in everyone’s face nearly enough.”

    There can never be enough written about this, and that writing should go on indefinitely. This travesty should not be allowed to slip into the memory hole.

    You have done wonderful work, along with Bill Black, Yves Smith, Matt Taibbi and Abigail Field. Former TARP IG @neilbarofsky’s tweets on the subject are great. I hope all stay with it.

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post White House Selects Jim Yong Kim to Head World Bank

    2012-03-23 15:04:52View | Delete

    Regarding Fred Hiatt, even a blind pig finds a truffle now and then.

    I am grateful he passed over the Peter Principle in a rumpled suit.

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post Live Chat – William K. Black: The Foreclosure Settlement

    2012-02-17 13:06:13View | Delete

    I can’t read all this until later. I just dropped by to say thank you for all you have done to put the brakes on this monstrosity, and for educating me about subjects such as control fraud. Keep up the stellar work.

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    SusaninIowa commented on the diary post Hey, Did You Happen to See the Most Beautiful Girl in the World? by Jane Hamsher.

    2012-02-15 14:54:52View | Delete

    For a second opinion or additional consult, the vet school at Iowa State has a fine oncologist, for whom I have nothing but gratitude. http://vetmed.iastate.edu/users/lfox

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post Banks Want to Scotch Lawsuits in Foreclosure Fraud Settlement

    2012-02-07 16:09:12View | Delete

    MSNBC is running a poll on whether the settlement should be acepted. http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/06/10332260-mortgage-relief-partial-solution-better-than-none

    Go to the end of the article.

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    SusaninIowa commented on the diary post Do You Have to Work for Peter G. Peterson to Be Cited on Budget Issues in the Washington Post? by Dean Baker.

    2011-09-20 21:09:37View | Delete

    It’s Lori Montgomery. What do you expect? She has been carrying water for Peterson and the Deficit Drama Queens for a long time. She is ignorant of basic facts about the budget and Social Security funding and she has the empathy and human compassion of Mr. Spock.

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post The Transpartisan Imperative

    2011-08-13 12:59:35View | Delete

    Really well said. Bookmarked to counter the stupid tribalism among Obama supporters at Daily Kos, which is so often directed at you. It is unjustified in my view. If you can get Grover Norquist behind an objective that you perceive as desirable, why wouldn’t you do it? If the only explanation is political cooties, it’s not good enough.

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post Group that Heckled Romney “Puts Principle Before Party,” Questions Both Parties on Social Safety Net, Making Corporations Pay

    2011-08-12 08:51:44View | Delete

    On Twitter, @iowacci. Website: http://www.iowacci.org/

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post We Must Act Now to Save Social Security and Medicare

    2011-07-15 14:14:03View | Delete

    You betcha. Yes we can. And did.

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    SusaninIowa commented on the diary post Third Way’s Cowan and Kessler Call For the Radical Dismantling of Social Security by Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson.

    2011-07-12 10:31:28View | Delete

    This is wrong as well. Life expectancy is declining, not increasing for most. The exception: wealthy white guys. The Social Security actuaries always planned on longevity increases. To the extent they were slightly off, the 1983 Greenspan/Reagan/O’Neill “fix” took care of it until now. Even as overall longevity has increased due to decreased infant mortality, the [...]

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    SusaninIowa commented on the diary post Third Way’s Cowan and Kessler Call For the Radical Dismantling of Social Security by Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson.

    2011-07-12 08:54:38View | Delete

    The answer is, your friend is wrong. If you don’t pay into the system, you don’t get benefits out. It’s a social insurance program, not a welfare program. There are numerous ways the 23% shortfall referenced above can be addressed. This CBO Report lists some of them in Figure 1, in the Summary. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/115xx/doc11580/07-01-SSOptions_forWeb.pdf

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    SusaninIowa commented on the blog post Will Obama Sacrifice His Catholic Supporters to Get a Debt Ceiling Deal with the GOP?

    2011-07-09 14:40:46View | Delete

    25% in Iowa Pew map: http://religions.pewforum.org/maps

    There are a lot of Catholics in my part of northeast Iowa, and a lot of them are conservaDems.

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