baby boomers

There are a lot of elements to the nation's fiscal problems -- rising health care costs, the government's willingness to accept deficits as "normal," the fact that the government spends more in interest on the national debt than it does on Iraq. But most of these budget problems are slow-boiling worries.

Based on Dana Millbank's column in the Washington Post today, it looks like the Social Security commissioner got roughed up a little at the ceremony held to officially enroll the first baby boomer.

On Jan. 1, the first baby boomer turns 62 -- and yes, she'll be signing up for early Social Security benefits.

Last week the Washington Post’s Robert Samuelson took the Beltway think-tank community to task for having “tiptoed around” the nation’s long-term fiscal challenge.

Thomas R. Saving, one of the Social Security/Medicare trustees, has an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today warning of the "Medicare meltdown" to come. I'll let you ponder the implications of a man named Mr.