A brighter economic outlook has helped push Social Security's projected trust fund depletion date to a year later. But there's still urgency for Congress to act.
and yet, in a political economy where the theater is a requirement and this program has been under ideological assault since its inception, this program manages to succeed and maintain a heightened requirement of auditing/reporting that other progams elide, while having negligible administrative/overhead costs.
personally, i am impressed by the civil servants who get it done while being shat upon constantly in the press and by “non-partisan” think tanks, both owned and operated by anti-entitlement billionaires who pay more to destroy the program than they have ever paid into it.
and yet, in a political economy where the theater is a requirement and this program has been under ideological assault since its inception, this program manages to succeed and maintain a heightened requirement of auditing/reporting that other progams elide, while having negligible administrative/overhead costs.
personally, i am impressed by the civil servants who get it done while being shat upon constantly in the press and by “non-partisan” think tanks, both owned and operated by anti-entitlement billionaires who pay more to destroy the program than they have ever paid into it.
There’s a great example of such a character in the first season of Homecoming, a show I highly recommend, the first season especially.