Word: programed
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...payroll-tax revenues. A smaller national debt also reduces overall demand for credit, pushing down interest rates. This in turn should stimulate economic growth and create jobs, producing more payroll-tax revenue to keep Social Security healthy. Devoting the savings in interest payments to Social Security should extend the program's solvency from...
...CHECK IS IN THE MAIL The Gore plan only delays the impending bankruptcy of the program; it doesn't solve it. Even if Gore gets the country through the retirement of the baby boomers, the cost of Social Security will continue to rise (because people are living longer), forcing what may be more painful reforms the next time around...
...elderly. Gore increases the percentage of the budget devoted to retirement with his "retirement savings plus" plan (which will cost between $200 billion and $620 billion over the next 10 years). Is it worth annually spending nearly a third of the national budget on Social Security to extend the program's life for only 17 years...
Uninsured kids have become campaign props in this year's presidential contest. So far, most of the political debate on the issue has focused on the Governor's handling of the federal Children's Health Insurance Program, with Bush taking credit for extending this benefit to 423,000 low-income children, and Democrats slamming him for a slow and halfhearted start-up of the plan. But citing CHIP's performance as evidence that Bush is ignoring child health is not really convincing, since 39 other states have done just as badly as Texas in using federal funds allotted to them...
...statutory deadline and received a response from federal officials, who asked the usual large number of questions. But instead of a prompt follow-up, Bush's regulators waited nearly a year to submit a revised version. Another volley of paperwork continued until August 1997, when Congress passed the CHIP program, overtaking the state plan. But even then, Bush took his time to start up CHIP, although the program requires less of a state contribution than Medicaid (25% versus 40%). When CHIP finally did start, last May, a total of five years had passed since the legislature first attempted to cover...