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Title: Social Security and Its Enemies: The Case for America's Most Efficient Insurance Program by Max J. Skidmore, Max Skidmore ISBN: 0-8133-3663-5 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Real Deal
Comment: I can't top some of the great reviews here, but let me just say this is a readable and even fun debunking all the smear efforts of conservatives, business interests, and libertarians who want to "save" social security.
Too often I've heard intelligent people quote distorted and misleading information about social security gleaned from the press (which itself parrots anti-social security thinktanks). I'm sad to say I was one of those people.
Then, as the bankruptcy date was revised to be later and later, I began to suspect something was not quite right with the doomsayers. I hoped Skidmore's book would tell the real story, and it did.
One cautionary note: though published less than two years ago, some of the information in the book is now dated. For instance, Skidmore reports that in 1998, the trustees moved the dreaded depletion year from 2029 to 2032. While that is true, new readers should be aware that the date has since been moved to 2038!
Rating: 5
Summary: Much Needed Information to Counter Propaganda Campaign
Comment: In this short, easy-to-read book, Skidmore persuasively argues the case for the continued existence of Social Security. No political issue has been more lied about, with malicious intent on the part of opponents, than the so-called Social Security "crisis." Time and again the Social Security Trustees' pessimistic projections have been repeated in the media, but very rarely are the assumptions behind the projections explained. Skidmore explains how the Trustees arrived at the various scenarios, and how the current projections are highly unrealistic and unlikely to come to pass.
The truth, though, doesn't hold sway with SS opponents. They are opposed to the system because they oppose any governmental program regardless of its success. Skidmore shows the reader the history not only of Social Security but also of its opposition. He shows us the motives behind chicken littles such as Peter Peterson, Senator Bob Kerrey (who has gotten contributions from anti-SS organizations), and rightwing think tanks such as the Cato Institute and the Concord Coalition. He also touches on how the media have been irresponsible in its reporting and its tendency to print or repeat conservative think tank policy papers without comment.
Brief and always to the point, this book is one of the best sources on the Social Security system and its critics available.
Rating: 5
Summary: Social Security Myths Exposed
Comment: Max Skidmore makes a solid case on behalf of the Social Security system as one of the most efficient income-maintenance programs in the United States. The book presents a very scholarly and systematic examination of some of the myths surrounding Social Security and exposes the covert propaganda war waged by conservative ideologs against the Social Security system since the program's inception.
This book should be on the reading list of anyone who is concerned about protecting one of the most important safety-net programs in the United States. The book is written in a manner that allows a lay person to understand the arguments surrounding the program. At the same time, Skidmore supports his arguments with scholarly documentation and evidence.
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Title: Social Security: The Phony Crisis by Dean Baker, Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker ISBN: 0226035441 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Real Deal: The History and Future of Social Security by Sylvester J. Schieber, John B. Shoven ISBN: 0300081499 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach by Peter A. Diamond, Peter R. Orszag ISBN: 0815718381 Publisher: Brookings Institution Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else by David Cay Johnston ISBN: 1591840198 Publisher: Portfolio Pub. Date: 25 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0393058506 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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