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SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/17/2011 04:47 PM Report

THE SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM SHOULD NOT BE ON THE TABLE:

The speech by Chief Actuary Stephen Goss:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/298428-1

MY NOTES:

The calculations for Social Security are VERY sensitive to population growth rather than increases in productivity.

3.3 workers per beneficiary (1975 to 2008) moving to only 2 workers per beneficiary after 2030!

Our population is really aging from 2010 to 2030 and will create a great deal of change! There is something more than just a bulge of baby boomers—also life expectancies are increasing (perhaps not with all the obesity). 2.5-3% growth of the labor force with Baby Boomers. The now predicted 1% growth of labor force means much slower GDP growth.

THE BIG FACTOR—changing birth rates of two children per woman versus three per woman. 1965 is when we saw this transitional shift.

Now the average benefit is $1,000 per month per beneficiary. So after 2030 when there are only two workers (341 times 2) you will only get $682 a month instead of $1,000 in benefits. (The math is a 32% drop in benefits but calculates to a 25% reduction because in 2022 benefits are lowered by 7% and more of the benefits are taxed over time. 1.2% CPI average is slower than average wage growth so there is a predicted fall for social security beneficiaries. They will fall behind the worker standard of living.)

Social Security's net effect on the total federal debt is really nil. If publicly held debt is the issue then Social Security has a big impact. However, Social Security is really not part of the budget issue as Paul Ryan has said.

How long will Social Security be solvent under the current law? 2037 is the projected year until the trust fund uses all the reserves--$2.6 trillion--if nothing is done. Disability insurance will run out in 2018. However, DI can get a larger percentage of the pot to bring it up a bit.

The $2.6 trillion reserve augments the benefit payments until 2037.

( Now there is 75 cents coming in for every dollar of benefits. The 12.4% is a flat tax rate except the tax on benefits. Social Security has NO borrowing authority. In 2010, $16 billion was drawn from the Trust Fund for benefits but interest alone on the money in trust was well over $100 billion. )

SOLUTIONS FOR 2037: retirement age increased, reduce monthly benefit, increase tax of 12.4% above $106,800 (current ceiling), increase immigration further (need more workers to pay), increase births. Choices in a nutshell: lower benefits by 25% or increase revenue by 33% or a combination of the two.

Social Security has progressive bend points which means income redistribution. So then $800 monthly earnings you get 90%, next $4,000 you get 32% above that you get 15% return. HOWEVER, higher income folks, on average, live longer than lower income folks so this is, for the most part, a wash—you live longer, and over this longer time at less money, get about the same as those who die earlier getting more net money.

The 1977 amendments in Social Security made huge changes—the problem was three to four times larger at that time. The 1983 amendments raised the age and turned Social Security around dramatically.

SOCIAL SECURITY & THE BUDGET: Social Security is a mandatory program. The revenue is DEDICATED. The General Fund of the Treasury has borrowed from this $2.6 trillion. Social Security is its own separate entity operating on its own trust fund basis. Two debts: total debt and then publically held debt. There is on-budget and off-budget and Social Security is off-budget. So Social Security has ZERO effect on-budget (except perhaps interest that is owed by the General Fund to the Trust Fund of Social Security). There is NO net effect to the on-budget flows. Even when the $2.6 trillion is gone there is no net effect to the on-budget. (This accounting system is confusing and makes it easy to con the public.)

Productivity assumption is 1.7% growth which is the average per capita over the last century. However, Social Security is VERY sensitive to population growth for benefits rather than productivity.

doodah  03/17/2011 08:25 AM Report

BUDDY ROEMER WOULD BE A *REASONABLE* COMPROMISE

doodah  03/17/2011 08:21 AM Report

winter,

All the teaparty people are actually blood-thirsty (for liberals) brainless hypnotized ZOMBIES!??!?!

Oh My!!!

But if they're 'brainless', how could they be 'hypnotized'?. One would think that one would have to have a brain (a prerequisite) in order to be deemed 'hypnotized'. Unless of course, they are actually 'zombies'; 'Unemployed Zombies', with an Ax to Grind.

Oh My!!! And all those Hippys; what are we gonna do with them???????

Make Way for the Das Newt!!! .. The Das Newt never runs out of Torpedoes!

winter  03/16/2011 08:53 PM Report

Huckabee laughs while saying "raising the age of eligibility for social security is heresy" ...HE LAUGHS

WHILE SAYING IT. That seems to be the malady that all republicans suffer from. That cynicism when the middle class

and anything to do with the social net is concerned. I think they get it from Teapartiers since that mob is filled with smart a$$es too. Playing to that crowd that learned alot of what they know from Coulter, Limbaugh , Beck and the whole lot of wise guys ridiculing positions where refutation fails. Then theres Newt. Please keep him off your show. He's shown how out in the fringes he is with the names he's calle our President.

Aliza  03/15/2011 11:19 PM Report

Letting Huckabee get away with airing his poison lies in a program I deem trustworthy is very disappointing!

It is NOT true that, as Huckabee stated: "A teacher in Wisconsin puts in $1 for the retirement fund. The fund puts in $57."

Only a maniac can cook this up and say it in public without compunction...a $57.00 contribution for each $1.00??! WHERE AND WHO?? I would like to know!

THIS IS A LIE AS MOST REPUBLICANS ARE ADEPT AT THROWING AROUND!!

It would have been in line with Charlie Rose's integrity, whose judgment I've always had in high regard, to ask Huckabee to support such a statement...instead of looking the other way and just saying afterwards:

"CHARLIE ROSE: There is it seems to me a huge anger over the fact that people in the private sector see people in the public sector being able to retire with extraordinary benefits because they opt out at age 65."

Dear God!

I don't expect anything less then lies and poison from the republicans. But I was very disappointed to not see Charlie find a way to have Huckabee support his factoid

about this incredible fund's contribution to teachers' retirement! I am a teacher and I don't --nor any of my colleages ever got fifty seven dollars for any one dollar anyone ever put: ANYWHERE!

What SICKENS me is that Huckabee was allowed to get away with spouting his lies on air in a program deemed trustworthy by many, and with that, allowed to feed more antagonism against teachers. But worse than that: based on blatant lies.

I am disappointed as together with many listeners and viewers of his program, I take Charlie Rose's interviews seriously, as coming from a trustworthy man.

Letting Huckabee get away with his lies is very disappointing!

doodah  03/10/2011 07:16 AM Report

Aw feel yer Pine, Neil (pardon the Slick-Willy impersonation)(I can't help myself). But seriously, get to know, Buddy Roemer; And Then, pass judgment.

Here's a start - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkvsn-oNz5s

and then this - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/8964-1

...I know I'm impressed.

NeilMacCallister  03/10/2011 01:26 AM Report

Hah! ..maybe you've got me doodah, ..maybe my paranoia is actually worse than yours!

The only thing I lobby for, is to get my kids to wash the fry-pan when they're done cooking.

I'm still losing that one.

Me and everybody I was pouring cement with that year voted for Ross Perot. We thought he was someone who meant what he said, and I voted for him even though I thought he was wrong about NAFTA being a bad thing.

I happen to like "free trade", "fair trade", "un-subsidized trade".

I don't know Buddy Roemer, ..and I guess I just no longer believe that ANYBODY means what they say.

Oh well, ..I've got to go make a birthday cake.

Good luck, partner.

doodah  03/09/2011 10:00 PM Report

Neil, how come you don't share my enthusiasm for a real conservative who walks his talk.?. The ONLY one in politics! I'm confused. .. Are you a Lobbyist?

BTW, you're account of history is flawed; Ross Perot did NOT "give" the election to Bill Clinton. Ross Perot simply 'took' the Presidency AWAY from Bush Sr.. (it was some long standing business feud the 2 of them had way back, and Perot got his revenge). He was a little nutty, Unfortunately.

But not Buddy Roemer; as you, and the rest of America will learn.

NeilMacCallister  03/09/2011 05:18 PM Report

..and yes, the American, Sinclair Lewis.

NeilMacCallister  03/09/2011 05:13 PM Report

I dedicate the following to David Brooks' (..and Mr. Mike Huckabee's!) stated love of Rock-n-Roll:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVknPqH6iH4

..."It Can't Happen Here"

..from an Englishman: Mr. Ritchie Blackmore

"Go Gonzo!!!!!!"

NeilMacCallister  03/09/2011 05:00 PM Report

doodah, ..why can't you just come-on-out and shout-it-out-proud that you are here to "Organize-for-Am'bama"?

Ross Perot gave the '92 election to Bill Clinton, did he not?

Now you want Buddy Roemer to run cover for Barack Obama???

Why does President Obama need "cover" anyway??? ..America is not yet throwing rocks at the Capitol Buildings like they are in Libya, ..are they??

Why, that just, ..well, .."It Can't Happen Here", ..could it??

doodah  03/08/2011 08:50 AM Report

Roemer is the ONLY prospective candidate that is demonstrating that he has the real intelligence and BALLS to address and PRIORITIZE the REAL issues and problems of the day. Who the Hell wouldn't want a SANE Ross Perot for President?! Maybe a George Bush Sr.?. But that's yesterdays' woes. This Ross Perot is SANE and WILL DELIVER. He's gonna stick it to the Lobbyists and the American Dream STEALING Elitist-Socialist Republican/Democrat/GoldmanSachsatican Wall Street CriminalCronyCrowd. I say go get em and pull em out by their feet!

doodah  03/08/2011 01:39 AM Report

pardon me, That's ROEMER. BUDDY ROEMER. Pay Attention to him, he reminds me of Ross Perot, only SANE. He's the SANE Ross Perot that America NEEDS

doodah  03/08/2011 01:31 AM Report

doodah LIKES Buddy Roehmer. doodah likes Buddy Roehmer for President of The United States of America. Buddy Roehmer is the REAL DEAL. Run Buddy Run. My Vote for Buddy Roehmer. He'll save the REAL AMERICANS from the Assholes. President Roehmer! President Roehmer! President Roehmer!!!

ConnorBlum  03/07/2011 03:45 PM Report

I was highly disappointed that Charlie Rose did not ask Gov. Huckabee to explain his recent remarks in radio interviews that President Obama grew up in Kenya, was influenced by Mau Mau thinking, and was educated close to Madrasas. Was this intentional? (If so, not good journalism.) Or was it a failure from ignorance? (Also not good journalism.)Perhaps the interview was recorded before Governor Huckabee gave the recent series of radio interviews. (Then a note to that effect would have been in order.)

Being on Charlie Rose gave Governor Huckabee a degree of respectability he lost all claim to with his scurrilous misrepresentations of the President's past, apparently calculated to appeal to Birthers and others whose animus toward the President cannot be restrained by facts.

doodah  03/07/2011 07:10 AM Report

I like the sound of President Doodah :)

..shhhhh, if you'll attack my enemies and bite em hard, I'll make you Press Secretary or Secretary of the Press (whatever it's called?), the guy who tells the press to shut up and go away.

NeilMacCallister  03/07/2011 03:52 AM Report

Okay, fine, ..

I've never seen him play anything, so I wouldn't know about his musical abilities. That doesn't interest me in a President anyway.

So who is a good candidate? ..Who has expressed any decent ideas for getting this slow-bound train to edge a little forward down the track?

doodah  03/06/2011 08:00 PM Report

... I for one would like to see the bar raised (for a change). But it's still early, so let the Huckster let it out and out of the way, and get on with it. I'd like to see him do an Al Jolson impersonation. You know, Get down on one knee, "Mammy! This is your Boy, Sammy, Sammy Huck-it-to-Meeeee?!!!... . If he plays, 'Smoke on the Water' one more time, I'm gonna kill him.

doodah  03/06/2011 07:36 PM Report

Huckabee is the Republican equivalent of Al Gore. LOOZZERR!!!

NeilMacCallister  03/06/2011 03:49 PM Report

doodah, I respect your voice. You bring interesting phrases, and you are congenially engaging. But what are your final decisions?

We shouldn't disregard everyone who runs for office, and simply "hope" that we find ourselves with fruitful "leaders" by lucky happenstance.

I do appreciate Mr. Huckabee's heuristic (whole-grain) approach as an antidote to the "Artcle VI., Sec. xii, ss (e), line 25" type of in-the-weeds Congressional sludge and obfuscation.

Why NOT just say, "We have $550 Billion available this year. To what needs shall we apply it?"

Is that the thinking style Mr. Huckabee would work to accentuate in government decision-making?

Okay, ..I may be asking him to get just a little more "into the weeds", and to now begin every single media sound-bite with what he sees as his "top-4 necessary decisions". That way, I may get a chance to in-fact catch notice of his actual plan.

That didn't happen here at Charlie's table; and neither I, nor my funding-cut local library, can currently afford his book.

I am not asking for a "simple-thinking government", just a practical, realistic, and forwardly-effective one. I don't care who brings it.

(By the way, I do NOT need a high-speed train-ride! ..Not one of my neighbors has EVER asked for one!! ..Where would we be going anyway???)

doodah  03/06/2011 08:19 AM Report

Any thing Huckabee can do (RIGHT) anybody else can do better. That's why any President that gives him a job, is only doing it for the 'born-again Nut-Job vote', which probably includes a few rapists (I understand Huckabee has an affinity for those folks). If there's better people for the serious jobs out there, it would be IMMORAL to give the job to this quasi-preacher-politician Thingy (Major League Hypocrite).

The liberal press is taking it VERY easy on him right now, trying their best to get him nominated (or at least up high in high regard). It would be downright STUPID, to entertain the thought of a Huckabee anything.

NeilMacCallister  03/06/2011 12:27 AM Report

I disagree charlize, I believe Mr. Huckabee is honest in his offer to accept the responsibilities of the Presidency. The question is, what would he do to answer the problems he sees? ..Do we really have to buy his book to find out?

If the "front and center" is jobs, what will he do? ..trade laws? ..outlawing "quick greed"?? That is not enough.

Larry Kudlow bemoaned that America is not exploring and developing the idea-fields from which new products and jobs grow.

If that is true, why do we waste so much national time arguing about dead-end pension benefits, gay versus straight marriages, and free speech for hate groups?

Why not turn unions away from the pay-scale warfronts, and towards them flourishing as the incubators of new industrial applications, technologies, and business licenses that they could be?

Why do we not ask businesses to allow any new intellectual property, which has been imagined by someone who happens to be in their employ, to actually remain a property of that employee?? (..at least shared!)

And why don't we ask colleges to put in place courseworks which try to ignite fires of capitalistic enterprise from those tinderboxes of assembled minds, ..at least to the same extent that they try and win crosstown-rivalry football games.

Mr. Huckabee is right to desire protection of patent rights from foreign competitors, but it is much more than that: First you need the patents!

charlizecourriers  03/05/2011 03:19 PM Report

The Rev Huckachuck wants a cabinet job, but he won't even get that!

doodah  03/05/2011 07:22 AM Report

Well Neil, as a staunch, true as the red white and blue Republican President of the Country Club, I call on my brethren and grizzly Soccer-Mommettes to dare to HOPE that unemployment remains HIGH (even dare to HOPE HIGHER) and we start Losing Afghanistan (like before Barry); SO THAT the next election really will be a SERIOUS one (and we political-types won't be the laughing stock of the Peasantry).

I yield the remainder of my time.

blank  03/04/2011 11:58 PM Report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNFe7XSt6os

NeilMacCallister  03/04/2011 10:18 PM Report

Oh yes, ..I think Mike Huckabee is quite forthright also. It just worries me that he's so nice and jovial all the time.

Has he ever had to really struggle??

NeilMacCallister  03/04/2011 10:10 PM Report

Yes, ..doodah, the United States really is The Greatest Show on Earth!

..and I really do love "momma grizzlies", ..they just know what they're gonna do from the very start!

No feints, ..no wagering, ..no wasted efforts.

She will just do what she has to do, as best she understands it.

She will let you know her intentions, and follow through with her clearly-communicated statements.

And it is our choice, then, to engage her or not.

And I don't think the momma grizzly cares if my name is Neil, doodah, Phil, Hank, Barack, Warren Buffett, or Lloyd Blanfein.

***

Imagine that, ..the most powerful military force in the world, commandered by a soccer-mom!

.. :)

doodah  03/04/2011 07:56 PM Report

Sir Neil,

was that a call for the Princess of the Far Right to put on her Mama Grizzly Gloves and Sock that foreign impostor President in the gut and make him pay for all that bad stuff that Phil Gramm and Hank Paulson did?. Now that's really something to LOL about.

Oh boy! What a Circus it's gonna be.

winter  03/04/2011 07:18 PM Report

Mau Maus indeed. Mike and O'Reilly exchanging guffaws at that is closer to "Deliverence" than ....! What has it come to over there? "...yea, yea, he's not really one of us. yea, yea, heh heh we're the real thing yea yea. Is that what Rupert's memo that morning was?" Put the bass away Mike there isn't real musician who can stand you.

NeilMacCallister  03/04/2011 04:09 PM Report

Hah! ..maybe you're right, doodah, ..

Maybe Mike truly "doesn't really want to SERIOUSLY run"

Maybe he is standing as a lightning-rod to accept all the slings-and-media-outrage cast upon any-and-all who advance to challenge our American oligarchy.

Maybe, like the esteemed Sir Walter, he is but laying his (dust-)jacket down for the benefit of a regal one to come?

Who might she be?

God bless him!

winter  03/04/2011 03:59 PM Report

In the way erosion over the millenia has sculpted in Nature rock formations that form profiles of faces, human and animal, isn't it ironic that someone who, in the international spotlight, representing our country, someone who would and could make sly references of our President with such desperate and disparaging intent have a name like Huckabee. How else could that phenomenon have fallen into place upon America if not by some sort of cultural evolution. Like A Boy Named Sue, he must be getting back at his ancestors.

doodah  03/04/2011 02:10 PM Report

Huckabee doesn't really want to SERIOUSLY run for President, he just likes being in a parade. That's what that Obama-Kenya comment-slip was all about. On one side the liberal press will rip him a new one on that 'little forgotten' incident as governor (REPUBLICAN CONSERVATIVE GOVERNOR?!) of setting a violent rapist free to commit a murder ; I mean, where's his SHAME?! It looks to me, he ain't got none! Oh Holy man of God!?!. And then of course, from his own side, there'll be the torpedos launched at him from the Das Newt. I hope he sticks around for that.

cmora  03/04/2011 12:30 PM Report

Gosh Charlie, you didn't ask Reverend Mike about his belief that Obama was raised in Kenya and went to Mau Mau madrassas. Huckabee is either an idiot or an evil manipulator. Such people don't deserve to be treated respectfully as serious candidates. I'm very disappointed in you, Charlie.

NeilMacCallister  03/04/2011 11:57 AM Report

Good morning, doodah! ..your sunshine beams!!

So you're excited that someone may "go down" because a parent left him a name that can be rhymed with a nasty phrase?

Well, I'm not worried about Mike Huckabee, and I don't think he is either. He has already made, and will surely continue to make, more money than you or I ever will. Just like Barack Obama, Newt Ginrich, John Kerry, and Mitt Romney.

Mr. Huckabee has a few good ideas, and a few not-so-good, ..just like all those other people. That's what makes democracy so difficult: We have to still make a choice!

Maybe we should warn the Egyptians and the Libyans?

doodah  03/04/2011 08:48 AM Report

... he'll even be too much of a liability for future hopes of an appointment, he should just capitulate and resign to a life of leisure, sipping tea with phil gramm, and enjoy life's material pleasures while it lasts, before being relegated to the Pits of Hell.

doodah  03/04/2011 08:34 AM Report

PHuckamee Huckabee is going down like a Led Baba-Loon :)

NeilMacCallister  03/04/2011 02:33 AM Report

So Rob, ..would Jay Leno choose Huckabee or Obama in 2012?

I like that Mr. Huckabee has the honest courage to admit that "the economy is NOT recovering", and that he would NOT vote to raise the debt ceiling without major documented savings concessions.

That's a breath of much needed fresh air!

Though why does he first go to raising Social Security's age requirement, instead of first lifting the wage cap for Social Security payroll tax, and second for means-testing Social Security benefit payments? Those would be much more useful.

I like that he disagrees with the Libertarians who want to balance California's economic sink-hole by selling marijuana outside our state's gambling casinos.

I like that he thinks laws ought to be written so that they could be fairly read, understood, and obeyed. Can he write a Tax Code that uses no more than the 20 pages needed to record our nation's Constitution?

As far as unions go, ..I wish all sides would get away from those "money, money, money" arguments, and remember a very real treasure that trade unions preserve: The occupational skill sets that are so vital to a well constructed house, bridge, or hydro-electric powerplant. No one carries on the maintenance of our abilities to perform a trade well better than do our trade unions. Who else teaches how to cut a roof, install a power panel or a wind turbine, or safely enter a burning building except for our trade unions?

If we lose those skill-set reservoirs because neither side could get their arguments past "money, money, money", America will have lost another of its few remaining treasures.

with_teeth  03/04/2011 02:01 AM Report

This is just politics as usual. Where are the questions from a critical perspective, Charlie?

robdverity  03/03/2011 11:53 PM Report

When Jay Leno mocks you your in trouble. Huck apparently claimed Obama was a Kenyan??

doodah  03/03/2011 07:05 PM Report

I could never elect a President that has a name that rhymes with 'Huckamee'. 'President Huckamee' referred to daily would be intolerable, because the irony would be devastating. Where in the Constitution does it say, that 'power' has the right to free a convicted rapist to commit murder to another innocent just because he happened to rape a relative of your political rival? In fact, where does it even say that in the Bible? I didn't know that was a Christian value. Maybe by that barometer, Hitler must be the greatest Christian ever. I heard recently, that Charles Manson recently asked President Obama for a pardon; maybe he should save his energy and make his plea to this Cat, maybe even campaign for him (as best he can, from the can).

At one of his political rallys (I saw on C-span) he told his supporters to slash the tires of his opponents tires on election day. He acted like it was a joke, but he knows dam well, most of his supporters are religious fanatics and drunks.

efeinbe2  03/03/2011 05:43 PM Report

Honestly, Huckabee is the only one of the Republican candidates that I CAN stand. Whereas the others succumb to the pressure to be divisive and childish in politics, Huckabee is always jovial and doesn't hesitate to criticize his own side when appropriate. On the other hand, anyone who is on tape saying they wouldn't mind raising the retirement age to 75 isn't a realistic candidate for president, sorry.

robdverity  03/03/2011 04:23 PM Report

Huck's a social huckster. His emotional existence seemed more attuned to gay things than fiscal. Another do-gooder by his own definition. To hell w/him.

govaffco  03/03/2011 03:19 PM Report

Huckabee is, as my father used to say, a ‘good talker.’ That phrase described people who were genial and confident but indifferent to facts or logic. Having served as a governor, Huckabee knows that he couldn’t convince two average workers in the U.S. to come home and read a one-page bill; the guy has his own job and expects his elected representatives to do theirs. Indeed, it is likely that Huckabee’s own contract with Fox News is more than twenty pages and chock full of the stipulations, exceptions, conditions precedent and antecedent, and other nuances he claims are unnecessary in legislation.

Real leaders ask us to acknowledge the complexity of the world we inhabit and to turn our curiosity and talent to finding a way to manage it, make good use of it. I don’t think real leaders condemn, on one hand, kicking the fiscal can down the road and, on the other, offer us a comfortable blindfold so we can avoid all the other realities facing us.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/03/2011 02:08 PM Report

Here it is, the end of Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee:

CHARLIE ROSE: So Mike Huckabee would recommend to the country and to the congress, we raise the retirement age to what, to 75?

MIKE HUCKABEE: If we look at the actuarial tables -- 70, 72, maybe 75. After all as I say, you all feel better, you’re going to live longer.

Is 60 really the new 40 Mike? Thanks to advances in medicine (if you can afford it) we are living longer and better BUT this is up to a point. Unless we are genetically blessed we cannot expect to indefinitely escape the degenerative, chronic and irreversible diseases of advanced old age. Without Social Security we won't be able to afford it either.

By the way, why do we keep talking about Social Security? Harry Reid says there is nothing wrong with it and it is not part of the budget.

To sum up:

1- Social Security was off-budget from 1935-1968;

2- On-budget from 1969-1985;

3- Off-budget from 1986-1990, for all purposes except computing the deficit;

4- Off-budget for all purposes since 1990.

http://www.ssa.gov/history/BudgetTreatment.html

brianarrigo  03/03/2011 02:07 PM Report

Dear Charlie,

I love your program and I think you're the best in the business. Out of respect, here is my critique of the interview with Huckabee. If you get him back to the table I hope you consider these points.

1. Huckabee said in the interview that he understands the distinction between Libertarianism and Republicanism. As a viewer and voter I would have loved to hear him articulate just that, especially in the kind of concise and simple terms that he touts his new book to embody. I think you should have asked him directly and given him the chance to that.

2. On the issue of gay marriage. Huckabee said he understands the institution of marriage to (necessarily?) include procreative activities such as child rearing and raising. I think this is controversial, and not only for gay couples. But more importantly it cuts straight to the heart of the issue. That is, what is the meaning of marriage? More importantly, what is the government's role in defining the parameters and responsibilities of married couples? And how are Huckabee's views on marriage and government consistent with his ideas about what it means to be a Republican? I think there are likely some tensions here, and I want to hear aspiring political leaders, especially aspiring presidents, articulate how they understand them.

Thanks for your invaluable service Charlie. Keep up the great work!

~Brian in Pgh

winter  03/03/2011 12:43 PM Report

Mike is the foot in the door for theocracy to establish itself as the prevailing governance system--what they've been creeping towards for decades now. He's going to need more than playing bass guitar to demonstrate that he isn't anything but Ralph Reed trimmed around the edges. That's right Mike, raising the age of eligibility for social security is heresy and anyone who doesn't think so will find out the truth of what the public believes on that at the polls. It's much more the sacred cow than tax breaks for the wealthy is. Recall the shamelessness of extorting those breaks from President Obama by holding him hostage, like Somali pirates, with withholding unemployment extentions from working people, then try to convince me that republicans motives have anything to offer working class people. Sure Mike, our elderly would much rather spend the last years of their lives greeting shoppers at WalMart than playing with their grandkids so lets cement that lifetime of work ethic into the fabric of their cobwebs. But we're desperate these days. We're at the any port in a storm level of having to rescue the economy on a ship where there are more passengers than there are lifeboats so guess who drowns, its the suckers at the table who didn't know they were the suckers, the people who've played by the rules and have been filing resumes and applications everywhere only to discover that their opportunity has been shipped overseas and the difference folded into overflowing quarterly reports. In light of that, whats the point in even discussing job creation ...suckers?

REMant  03/03/2011 11:17 AM Report

I notice, having made a trip to the bookstore this week, that Jindal, Pawlenty, Palin, and even Scott Brown also have their books out. I guess it's the thing to do. I like Mike - voted for him in the VA primary in 2008 - but, like it or not, his image is as a man from another time. Too, he always reminds me of Gomer Pyle, which may be a good thing if he can sing Back Home in Indiana, but he has spotty academic credentials, and some vulnerabilities in his past, alluded to here. Like Palin, I think he can help out more as a team player, but the recognition factor may make him a stronger candidate than someone like Daniels, who is I understand Brooks' pick for his expertise, but hardly well-known. I think tho Mike is giving China a bad rap, because they only do what they do in order to continue to develop technically and counter Fed policy. It is going to take time to develop domestic consumption on a sustainable basis, just as it is going to take time for us to recover the mfrg and educational capabilities we've lost. If instead of taking advantage of them all these years, we had helped them, things would be much better, worldwide. I sincerely hope the 2012 campaign does not degenerate into China-bashing. What he says about the public sector unions is true. I only hope the Arabs realize that in this case the politician involved is the real democrat and not the ppl occupying the statehouse.