Here it is ! The most comprehensive list of President Barack Obama's accomplishments to date.

Seniors prepared to cut back on everything from food to charitable donations to whiskey as word spread Monday that they will have to wait until at least 2012 to see their Social Security checks increase.

Cantor did the right thing by repudiating Iott, but his decision to do so is surprising in light of the fact that Cantor and other GOP leaders have consistently refused to denounce the most extreme right-wing candidates in this election cycle.

On a press call this morning, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Reps. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), John Conyers (D-Mich.), and Dan Maffei (D-N.Y.) announced their united opposition to any Social Security cuts the deficit commission might recommend.

There are actually two Tea Party movements in America today: one you've read about that is not that important and one you've not read about that could become really important if the right politician understood how to tap into it.

John Boehner, the Republican House leader who will become Speaker if Democrats lose control of the House in the upcoming midterms, recently offered his solution to the current economic crisis: "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmer, liquidate real estate.

omorrow, House Republicans are planning to release the latest version of their Contract With America, modeled off the 1994 document of the same name.

So the challenge, I think, for the Tea Party movement is to identify, specifically, what would you do?" he added. "It's not enough just to say get control of spending.

We do have fiscal problems in this country: health care, for instance. We have to get growth in that sector down or we'll bankrupt the country. But that's not the case with Social Security. Social Security is just a question of priorities.

I seeded an article earlier today telling the story of a man who, at age 55 lost his job. By age 57, he was in a state of complete hopelessness. He had run out of unemployment benefits, and was gambling to keep himself fed and housed.

1. CBO analysis shows that if all income were subject to the Social Security tax (as opposed to just the first $106,800), Social Security's trust fund would last through 2083. Given the imprecision of 75-year economic forecasts, that should be good enough for now.

For a couple of years, it was the love that dared not speak his name. In 2008, Republican candidates hardly ever mentioned the president still sitting in the White House. After the election, the G.O.P.

"I've never said I want to eliminate, I always said I want to save Social Security by paying back. But to do that we have to cut back," Angle told the crowd of more than 1,100 attendees to mild applause.

Panic! Lose your minds! And above all .... Privatize! Privatize! Privatize! Because the entire Social Security system is about to crash and go belly up! Except that it's not.

Don't fall for it. Social Security did not contribute to the deficits or debt, it ran a huge surplus. That surplus was supposed to be set aside. Instead it was handed out to the very wealthy as tax cuts.

Earlier this week, Ezra Klein voiced a strong argument against raising the age for receiving Social Security benefits to 70:

Let me see if I have this straight: in the last few days members of the GOP have savagely screwed the unemployed, protected the bankstas, trashed Thurgood Marshall, implied rape and incest is part of God's plan, defended BP, threatened to either end social security or screw  …

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IN MOST democracies, politicians have a wretched time in opposition. America arranges things differently. Even in opposition, the minority party can still play a powerful role.

On numerous occasions I've seen a figure being bantered about as the cost of government benefits for for illegal immigrants. It's in the neighborhood of 32 billion dollars per year. That number has no basis in fact.

Tea partiers proudly proclaim themselves conservatives. And rightly so.

Americans believe that undocumented immigrants are exploiting the United States' economy. The widespread belief is that illegal aliens cost more in government services than they contribute to the economy. This belief is undeniably false.

Myth #1: Undocumented immigrants come to the United States to get welfare.

In contrast to the typical image of an illegal immigrant — paid in cash, working under the table for small-scale labor contractors on a California farm or a suburban construction site — a majority now work for mainstream companies, not fly-by-night operators, and are hired an …

Using data from the Census Bureau's current population survey, Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, an advocacy group in Washington that favors more limits on immigration, estimated that 3.8 million households headed by illegal immigrants g …

Ford, of Middle Tennessee State University, said a majority of economists agree that illegal immigrants are a net benefit for the U.S. economy.