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Although he continues to postpone offering any substantive plan to save Social Security, the President has already committed prospective tobacco money for new government spending. As Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) has insisted, any windfall from anti-smoking litigation ought to be used to shore up Medicare. Preventing the dissolution of both Social Security and Medicare-care constitutes a national priority. Expansion of the federal government, even in good economic times, remains an ill-conceived prerogative...
...Fans of the current system wish to solve this imbalance by "tinkering." For example, some combination of benefit cuts, modest tax increases, a change in the investment portfolio of the trust fund and an increase in the retirement age could shore the system up for the next 75 years. Proponents ask why we should radically reform a program that has been so effective for so long. Opponents say that "tinkering" will not be a permanent fix and that there may be a cheaper way to get greater benefits...
...President also called on Congress to use any budget surpluses over the next few years to shore up the social security system. While the President should be commended for calling attention to this problem, it is important to note that the surpluses will not alone ensure the long-term solvency of social security. The President should propose a more fundamental restructuring of the program, coupled with a call for greater sacrifices today to ensure the survival of a strong safety net for our generation 50 years from...
...Dean of Faculty Affairs Eleanor Shore said that she "enjoyed Dr. Holman and had the highest respect...
...wanted evidence that Lewinsky had confessed an affair with Clinton. But Tripp had an even longer standing interest in the White House's sexual mores. After her friend Gary Aldrich was discredited by the White House for writing about alleged sex play there, she got angry and hoped to shore up his account in a book of her own. She sent a proposal to a literary agent in New York, but the publishing plans never panned...