While modest job growth is certainly better than the disaster Obama inherited, it is a long way from restoring the country to what it once was: a place where people who worked hard and stayed out of trouble could count on basic economic security.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York brought criminal charges against Rabi, and he was convicted on one count of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit fraud.
Their leaders are said to have quietly contacted Sunni imams to seek security guarantees in return for abandoning the Assads.Reform, repression or regional war?Indeed, the only people the regime can really count on seem to be the security forces.
Social Security was created in times much like today to provide Americans with basic income security they could count on in old age.
Mr. Brownstein, a Denver-based hedge fund manager known as Bo, pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud based on information he received from Drew Peterson about the pending acquisition of Mariner Energy by the Apache Corporation.
He can take the advice of the Washington establishment and punditry class and go back to D,C,'s version of "centrism" which, to establishment folks, usually means giving Wall Street and other big business lobbyists what they want while cutting things the middle class counts on like Social Security, Medicare and education.
Considering that for many couples in the US, one spouse earns more than the other, and that most Americans count on Social Security as an income stream in retirement, this is a significant benefit change.
If convicted, he faces up to 10 years on each count of securities fraud and 5 years on each investment advisory fraud charge.
That's enough to get them comfortably to age 77 if they count on Social Security.
Don't count on Social Security, either, because it may take more than a year for your claim to be processed and longer if you appeal a rejection.
