Senior Citizens

Nick Russell on March 24th, 2010

Back in my Army days, my company commander had the above words in a frame on the wall behind his desk. Captain Edgerton told me that people spend way too much time thinking about how to handle a situation, talking about how to handle it, and arguing about how to handle it. He wanted his [...]

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Nick Russell on February 22nd, 2010

In a blog post few days ago, I wrote about Maria, or whatever the name is of the Third World waif, that one of those Save The Children type television commercials keeps wanting us to send money to so she can have a new life. I made the comment in jest, but the truth is [...]

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Nick Russell on October 18th, 2009

Wednesday President Barack Obama asked Congress to approve $250 payments to more than 50 million senior citizens to make up for the fact that there will be no cost of living adjustment in their Social Security payments next year. This will be the first time in eleven years that there will be no increase in [...]

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