Cato Director of Education and Child Policy Darcy Olsen wrote in USA Today that although accountability is a good thing, real accountability doesn't come from politicians. She argues that what ails education isn't a lack of standards or testing. The short-term financial underpinnings Social Security brightened in the past year, the programs' trustees reported yesterday, according to The Washington Post . The trustees' annual report said the Social Security trust fund gained an extra year, to 2038, before its funds are projected to be exhausted and the government can only pay partial benefits. Clearly, the need for reform is stronger today than ever.
Personal accounts can make the system solvent.
But more importantly, they give workers the right to control their retirement planning, to create wealth and pass it on to future generations, and to build retirement nest eggs on a foundation of real investment delivering higher rates of return. We don't know where the economy will be a year from now, ten years from now, or fifty years from now. But we do know the population is aging and the Baby Boomers will soon retire. NASA balked at letting Tito train with the others. The agency has scheduled a briefing on the touchy topic for this afternoon as U.S. and Russian space officials try to work things out.