“If it ain’t broke, break it”: Charlie Peters on the Slow Death of the Social Security Administration
Topic: Charles Peters: Speaking His Mind, Departmentalized - Federal Agencies, Free Agency, Issues & Ideas, Social Security Administration23. August 2007 |
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One bureaucracy that has a splendid record of efficiency has been put on a near-starvation diet by the Bush administration. "Staffing at the Social Security Administration will soon be at its lowest level since 1974," reports the Washington Post’s Stephen Barr. "The number of disability claims waiting for hearing decisions is at an all-time high."
The agency’s head, Michael J. Astrue, says "that inadequate funding since 2001 is largely to blame for staffing and workflow problems." Was the Bush gang trying to create problems with the present Social Security system to gain support for its privatization proposals?
(Originally printed in The Washington Monthly September 2007 issue. Used by permission.)
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