Computer Illiteracy Blows Cover
Computer Illiteracy Blows Cover
Derrick Max is the executive director of two supposedly independent, nonpartisan groups, the Alliance for Worker Retirement Security (part of the National Association of Manufacturers) and the Coalition for the Modernization and Protection of America’s Social Security, affiliated with the Business Roundtable. He’s a staunch supporter of overhauling Social Security.
He’s also not very good at working his computer.
When Max emailed his testimony on Social Security to the Senate, he forgot to turn off “track changes.” Whoops. Turns out the White House left its fingerprints all over his document.
The associate commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Andrew Biggs — who’s currently on loan, working out of the White House — edited Max’s now-not-so-nonpartisan testimony, making corrections, ensuring it matched the Bush line. Max forgot to erase the evidence of White House involvement in his “independent” testimony.
Note to the White House: When you’re looking for your next syncophant, make sure you pick a guy who knows how to work Microsoft Word.
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I can respect a criminal.
I can respect an idiot.
But I can’t respect a criminal idiot.
Anybody have this dude’s home address?
May 19th, 2005 at 2:18 pmWhat a fool.
But, will anyone notice the lie the administration was trying to create.
May 19th, 2005 at 2:22 pmSo where will this fit-in to the network news tonight – before the weather or after sports?
May 19th, 2005 at 2:25 pmYet these are the people shaping and making the decisions that affect our lives. Truly truly frightening.
And yet another attack of the paid hacks. Jeff Gannon is turning out to be a representative example, not an anomaly.
May 19th, 2005 at 2:37 pmHere’s a tip from a lawyer: always convert your Word files into PDF or some similar format when you’re sending them out (particularly to your opponents). Even if this guy had turned “track changes” off, Word still can include all sorts of hidden information with your document (revision history, commetns, etc.) if you don’t scrub them out.
May 19th, 2005 at 2:49 pmBetter yet, don’t use a piece of crap like M$-Turd in the first place.
May 19th, 2005 at 3:23 pmHow about this quote:
At the White House, spokesman Trent Duffy applauded the effort “to get the facts right” and said he saw no problem with Biggs’ actions.
“This president has presided over one of the most ethical administrations in history…”
What the ??? Ethical???!!!!!!!!
May 19th, 2005 at 3:28 pmA Question Of Word
May 19th, 2005 at 3:53 pmThis is almost too good to be true.
rothflol. It is so funny and so sad at the very same time.
May 19th, 2005 at 4:10 pmTrue or not… Those who are against overhauling social security will are the same folks who will be getting their full benefits – in vastly INFLATED dollars.
Yeah, you’ll get your money all right. But you’d better have a plan B unless you like dog food.
May 19th, 2005 at 4:37 pmhey tony/buckshot wtf is your problem? Brain Damage? or are just retarded?
May 19th, 2005 at 5:16 pmAs Robert Reich and a number of others have pointed out, fixing SS accomplishes nothing unless we fix Medicare first. Actually, we have to fix big government and spending. Go look at the CBO 10 year forecast relating to the latest appropriations bill.
May 19th, 2005 at 5:20 pmListen buckshot, the best plan I have seen is from the SS actuaries themselves. They say if we lift the $89,000 cap on SS taxes the account will be completely funded through 2090. That’s what I support.
Take your dogfood crap to others that want to take food out of retired peoples mouths.
May 19th, 2005 at 5:53 pmKindness,
Each action has a consequence. Raising SS taxes on the top end would have a similar effect as raising the income tax on the upper income earners.
Raising taxes on the producers of America has long been known to slow economic growth. Lowering taxes on the same group increases economic growth. JFK spoke of this.
By the way, JFK was more conservative than GWB.
You’re assuming that if you raise the cap to the stratosphere, those people taking the hit will continue to do what they are doing now, and let their millions go into SS.
That’s quite an assumption. Tax policy has drastic consequences.
I do understand though, why the lower income folks seem to be so pro-tax. The bottom income half of Americans pay only about 4% of the total income taxes now.
Poor people simply don’t pay any taxes.
May 19th, 2005 at 8:05 pmTo be specific, I mean poor people don’t pay INCOME taxes.
May 19th, 2005 at 8:06 pmPoor people don’t pay taxes. Rich people have smart lawyers so they don’t pay taxes, at least thats what numbnuts said, so I wonder who does pay taxes. Pres and Vice Pres, they made them public no wonder were in the red.
May 19th, 2005 at 10:15 pmWillie,
If you look at the figures on the IRS website, you will find that the bottom half pay almost zero income taxes. About 20% of them actually get back more than they pay in.
The top few percent pay a whopping majority of all taxes paid.
And of course the upper middle class pays a hefty amount.
May 19th, 2005 at 10:39 pmThey also earn the whopping majority of the income. For example, the top 20% pay about 67% of the taxes and earn about 60% of the income. So our system is only very slightly progressive.
As to your comment about higher taxes on top earners causing economic growth to slow – I guess the period from 1993-2000 was just awful. Poor job growth, weak economic growth, increasing poverty, huge budget deficits, etc etc. Oh wait, that all has happened from 2001-2005 and in the 1990s (after the small tax increases of 1991 (Bush I) and 1993 (Clinton)) the economy boomed and we had one of the few periods in the last thirty years where the bottom 50% actually had an after-inflation increase in income.
May 19th, 2005 at 10:55 pmMichael,
Your vague simplification serves me no purpose. Thousands of highly educated and brilliant economists cannot agree on these things. There is no reason to think we would agree on tax policy.
I will say, though, that I have great respect for self starters who work hard, make and effort, take care of their families, and save some money….and I have little respect for those who live on credit, don’t try to improve their earning ability, and complain.
Any mediocre person can complain about how they are getting the shaft – but when they are being subsidized each year with a tax credit, their complaint has little value to me.
Sorry.
May 20th, 2005 at 1:47 amI climbed out of that pit 30 years ago.
You can too. But you HAFTA want to.
May 20th, 2005 at 11:51 amI am well out of that Pit Tony/Buckshot I just happen to have a social concious unlike you.
May 20th, 2005 at 12:14 pmI think the GOP doesn’t honestly know how to be aboveboard in anything they do. They are simply incapable of operating at anything even remotely resembling honesty. True sociopaths, all of them.
May 20th, 2005 at 12:38 pmBuscrock spews another Horatio Alger story that was a lie when Alger was writing them. No one gets rich, let alone wealthy, in America without tapping into the great Federal money bin. No one. The richer you get the more government breaks you can buy. That is why we are doomed, because the rich hate America. Bucksnot hates America. Because he hates his fellow Americans and would rather see many suffer to vindicate his warped world view than to face his own venal Mammon worship. Sad but true.
May 20th, 2005 at 4:10 pmBigfoot,
I am only responding to you because I can see you have a feeling of helplessness. I’ve been there. You would not believe the path I’ve taken to become comfortable.
I can assure you that your self-defeating attitude will get you nowhere. Once you conquer yourself, the rest is easy. Good luck.
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