A Troubled Future for America: Health Care and Social Security Reform

An analysis of a book entitled The Radical Center by Ted Halstead and Michael Lind. Authors are founders of the New America Foundation, one of the nation's most successful new public policy think tanks. Discusses chapter two of the book. (The Radical Center by Ted Halstead and Michael Lind. Published by Doubleday, a division of Random House, New York, NY. 2001.) A Troubled Future for America Modern America is an ever changing society. Solutions to past …

…who have not yet taken advantage of a savings program may be scared at the idea of decreased funding from Social Security. Moreover they may feel taken advantage because they had been paying FICA expecting someday to receive that money in return. I personally like the idea although it will take a long time to be in full swing. Self-reliance and frugality are hard qualities to learn, since we have been dependent for so long.