Day: July 7, 2013

What A Deal!

     From the National Journal (emphasis added):

With an anxious eye toward the coming debt-ceiling negotiations,
House Republicans are drafting what members call a “menu” of mandatory
spending cuts to offer the White House in exchange for raising the
country’s borrowing limit.

This menu is more a matrix of politically fraught options for the
Obama administration to consider: Go small on

Up And Down With The Roller Coaster

      Social Security has issued updated numbers on payments of fees
to attorneys and some others for representing Social Security
claimants. These fees are withheld and paid by Social Security but come
out of the back benefits of the claimants involved. The attorneys and
others who have their fees withheld pay a user fee for this privilege. Since these fees are usually
paid at the same