List/Grid Author Archives: Robert J. Samuelson / Syndicated Columnist
If Economy Has You Down, It’s Worse for Young
WASHINGTON - This is not a good time to be starting out in life. Jobs are scarce, and those th ...
New Social Realities Need Action
WASHINGTON — Put Social Security on the table — clearly and irrevocably. Protecting reti ...
Running Numbers on Tax Hikes
WASHINGTON — As a practical matter, the debate over higher taxes is finished. If there's ...
Obama Must Rebuild Our Faith
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke last week became the latest economist to as ...
The Best Way To Avoid the Fiscal Cliff Is Not To Jump
WASHINGTON - The first reason to avoid going over the "fiscal cliff" is economic. T ...
Call Entitlements’ Product What It Is: A Welfare State
WASHINGTON - If you doubt there's an American welfare state, you should read the new stud ...
Election Belies What Lies Ahead
WASHINGTON - As America votes, what can be said about this nasty campaign is that it was danger ...
ACA Soon To Be Full-Time Problem
WASHINGTON - Just recently, the Internal Revenue Service issued an 18-page, single-spaced notic ...
Future Still Kicked Down Road
WASHINGTON - What we heard in the second presidential debate was President Obama and Mitt Romne ...
The Truths You Won’t Hear at the Debates
"You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the ...
Reality Is, the American Dream Just a Fantasy
WASHINGTON - It's time to retire the American Dream - or at least give it a long vac ...
Romney Loses Chance for Truth on Welfare State
WASHINGTON - It is a measure of Mitt Romney's inadequacies as a candidate that he has not ...
