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Jeb Bush plan on Medicare includes scaling back retirement benefits for wealthier Americans

Published on October 27, 2015 in 2017/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Jeb Bush released proposals on Tuesday to limit the rising costs of Medicare and Social Security in a blog post first published on his website. Regarding Medicare, Bush said he supports “Medicare premium support,” where the federal health care program for seniors will provide a fixed amount toward a set of guaranteed options. It’s a plan that incoming House Speaker Paul Ryan has supported in the past, something Bush notes. It’s also doubtful it could get bipartisan support, since no…

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Third-party Social Security website warns not to come in dressed poorly

Published on August 24, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

I got a text message from my dad Monday evening asking me if I knew how he could get a replacement Social Security card. So, I did what any dutiful daughter whose dad doesn’t understand the Google would do. I Googled it. But, alas, I couldn’t just give him the address. I also had to make sure I didn’t later get an angry phone call because those government workers are morons because he forgot to bring something important. I did…

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Today on Context Florida: innovative charter schools, Donald Trump and Social Security’s birthday

Published on August 17, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

Today on Context Florida: Jac Wilder VerSteeg writes that charter schools claim to innovate because they are freed from some of the stupid bureaucratic rules that plague traditional public schools. A couple of charter schools in Broward County are taking advantage of a “rule break” in a way the VerSteeg calls truly “innovative.” They don’t have to pay their bills. According to the professional prognosticators: Donald Trump is a carnival barker riding the presidential primary process for an eventual deal that…

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Gwen Graham celebrates Medicare’s 50th anniversary with Tallahassee seniors

Published on July 31, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Staff Reports

Here’s how you know the 114th Congress is definitely in recess. Building upon her support for social programs that have been the bedrock of her North Florida balancing act to maintain her Democratic bona fides, U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham spent the day Friday visiting with a group of senior citizens in her home base of Tallahassee. Per a release from the Graham camp: Today, Representative Gwen Graham met with North Florida Seniors at Allegro Senior Living, in Tallahassee, to celebrate Medicare’s 50th anniversary and discuss…

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Jeb Bush’s apparent indifference to real lives of most Americans

Published on June 15, 2015 in 2017/Top Headlines by Martin Dyckman

To hear Jeb Bush talk about Social Security is not simply to wonder whether he ever did a hard day’s work in his life, but also to doubt whether he cares that there are millions of people who must. His proposal to raise the full retirement age in stages to 70, which has become a signal issue for him, sounds heedless of what it’s like to labor in construction or in a warehouse or on one’s feet all day as…

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Scott Walker denies he’s not going to campaign in Florida

Published on June 2, 2015 in 2017/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

It was big news in the Sunshine State political world last week when Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told talk-show host Laura Ingraham that, “I don’t think there’s a state out there where we couldn’t play in, other than maybe Florida,” referring to the power that Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush carry in their home state. But Walker said in Orlando today that comment was misinterpreted, and that — if he becomes a candidate — he believes his message resonates everywhere,…

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Today on Context Florida: Mike Huckabee, anonymity, Billy Carter and good writing

Published on May 19, 2015 in Apolitical/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

Today on Context Florida: Martin Dyckman writes of a Republican running for president who promises unequivocally to “protect Social Security and Medicare … to kill anything that poses a threat to the promises we have made to America’s seniors.” But he’s also calling for a “tax reform” that would bleed seniors as they’ve never been bled before. What do you call such a politician? Huckster, for one. Mike Huckabee, to be specific. Anonymity and pseudonymity have been key threads in the…

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