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by MYRA ADAMS July 30, 2015 4:00 AM @MYRAKADAMS

While engaging in the mundane task of gathering financial statements for a “secure retirement” meeting with my husband’s and my adviser, this Baby Boomer stumbled upon documented proof that our nation does not have the guts to confront one of its most serious economic problems. The realization came when I pulled from my files a document statement innocently titled, “Your Social Security Statement.”

At first glance, the statement did not appear menacing. I was told I could expect to receive a benefit of “about $2,136 a month” upon reaching age 70 — which certainly seems like good news. But immediately I thought of a parallel of President Obama’s infamous Obamacare promise: “If you like your Social Security, you can keep your Social Security.”  Then, as if on cue, I saw an asterisk with the following message:  The law governing benefit amounts may change because, by 2033, the payroll taxes collected will be enough to pay only about 77 percent of scheduled benefits.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421790/social-security-bankruptcy-statement-baby-boomers

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Published on Jul 27, 2015

0:00 – Is very limited government the same on a moral level as very large government? On a moral level, is it the same to steal one penny as it is to steal $100,000?

16:10 – One argument I always hear when talking about taxes, etc, is that it is “part of living in a society”. What is the best way to answer that?

22:35 – When talking about the free market/entitlement programs, multiple arguments come from the “other side” that I would like to hear his argument against. First, “how will people survive without a social safety net?

32:13 – Should every business be able to deny service to anyone they want? People usually go insane when I say that businesses should be allowed to. The argument I often hear is that it is “more immoral” to refuse service to someone for sex, race, sexual orientation, etc. than it is to make those business owners serve them.

44:37 – One last thing- what are your thoughts on the New Deal from FDR? Throughout public school, I was taught over and over and conditioned to believe that the New Deal was what saved the US from the Great Depression, but I have come to think otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG5uO62LDaQ

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Published on Jul 20, 2015

Unless you’ve lived under a rock, you’ve heard about the impact Donald Trump is having on American Politics. After controversial comments about illegal immigration and crime, Trump has risen to the very top of the polls, making him the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for the Presidential Election.

After a very successful campaign event in Phoenix, John McCain called Trump supporters “crazies,” which lead to a public war of words between the two figures. Recently, Trumps comments about McCain’s status as a war hero have been punched on by the mainstream media and Republican political establishment. Now I want to tell you what pisses me off about Donald Trump and John McCain!

McCain TV Ad: “Complete The Danged Fence

Donald Trump at the Family Leadership Summit, Courtesy C-SPAN

via What Pisses Me Off About Donald Trump and John McCain – YouTube.

Published on Jul 21, 2015

“You will always have people selling doom,” says Reason’s Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey. “It’s lucrative and it makes you sound serious. But they will be proved wrong.”

In his new book, The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the 21st Century, Bailey acknowledges the reality of climate change, but insists that humans will utilize technological advancements in solar, nuclear, and other forms of energy to manage any hazards long before oft-predicted calamity strikes. Bailey argues that world population will peak later this century and prices for all sorts of commodities—from oil to food to metals—will continue to fall as well.

Bailey paints a highly optimistic vision not just for the environment but for human flourishing in general, a point of view he concedes is generally not as good for book sales as visions of the apocalypse are. But he, notes, the optimistic vision does have the advantage of being true.

About six and a half minutes.