Word: kingstone
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...town hall meeting in Richmond Hill, Georgia, Rep. Jack Kingston had only shown a handful of the more than three dozen slides in the Powerpoint he had prepared on Social Security when the questions started. "Who are the trustees?" a man asked Kingston, a Republican congressman who represents 29 counties in the coastal Georgia area around Savannah. After Kingston started trying to explain who the Social Security trustees are, the man quickly interjected "are they congressmen or banks?" Kingston said he wasn?t exactly sure who the trustees were, but he would find out. He moved on to the next...
...member of the Republican leadership in Congress, Jack Kingston is on the front lines of taking on what he admits is the "sacred cow of American politics." If his three town halls conducted last Tuesday in strongly Republican counties are any reflection, President Bush may finally have met his political match. "If Social Security doesn't move this year, I don't know when it will come back," says Kingston, the vice chair of the Republican Conference, which works on developing the House GOP's message. Many Republican members of Congress have been reluctant to have open forums on Social...
...Richmond Hill, every utterance from Kingston seemed to inspire a new concern. Things didn't get any easier at his other town halls. Even among the elderly, who made up about two-thirds of the crowd at each meeting, people didn't know much about the program. At each meeting, residents asked Kingston why illegal immigrants get Social Security benefits (they don't), if members of Congress pay into Social Security (they do) and why the U.S. didn't employ the money it uses for foreign aid to pay for Social Security (the costs of Social Security completely dwarf...
...Christopher John Farley is a senior editor at TIME. Farley's novel about 18th century Jamaica, "Kingston by Starlight", will be published by Crown/Three Rivers Press in June. He is currently working on a biography of Bob Marley for Amistad/HarperCollins...
...city is also known for its clubs, of course, and options abound beyond the famous Second City for comedy and Kingston Mines or Green Dolphin Street for jazz. Natives flock to Rosa's Lounge, a blues haven northwest of downtown run by Tony Rosa and his mother. You may not end up dancing in the streets, as Matthew Broderick's character did, but a few hours of R. and R. in Chicago will certainly feel like...