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Tag Archives: government

Fixing Social Security, Part II

Previously, we saw that the Social Security trust fund is not actually funded, buread more »

Shedding light on the Social Security Debate – Part I

As Congress proceeded in fits and starts to address the issues of taxation and spending, I entered into a conversation with about 300 very smart women about whether Social Security was a legitimate part of that discussion. Opinions within this admread more »

welcome to 2013. you can run, but you can’t hide.

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Resolving to embrace the unresolved

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A Priceless Gift to Give Yourself

What would you rather have for the holidays: A piece of advice that prevents your savings from being demolished or a new blender? Maybe you’ve not been in the mood to go to the mall. Maybe you’ve runread more »

Fiscal cliff – solved

Neither the mantra: Higher tax rates for the rich! nor Higher tax rates will kill jobs! fix the problems inherent with the fast approaching fiscal cliff. If Washington, D.C. won’t (or can’t) fix the prread more »

Dental Health For Military Retirees

If you are a military retiree or spouse, how do you handle dealing with your dental up keep? After having two dental policies we were faced with having to drop the coverage due to increase of living. I fell into dire dental to where I used a ̶read more »

fiscal cliff diving

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A Grown Up Girl’s Guide to the National Debt Hot Conversation

If you ask the average person the difference between the deficit and the national debt, you're likely to get a blank stare. While you are much smarter than the average Josephine, we'll go over that anyway, just in case you were asleep during that sesread more »

Anarchists throw rocks through the wrong windows

Late last week vandals, numbering 50 – 75 according to a 911 caller, threw rocks through the windows of a local bank, a national bank, two multinational banks and a drugstore in Portland, Oregon. The drug store was probably just in the wrongread more »