Personalizing Social Security: Unplugging The Third Rail

Personalizing Social Security: Unplugging The Third Rail

Delivered at a seminar sponsored by the 60 Plus Association on the 62nd anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act, Washington, D.C., August 14, 1997

60 Plus Vice President Hank Hough Testifies Before The House Subcommittee On Social Security To Eliminate The Earnings Limits

When I came to Washington as a newspaper reporter in 1962, John F. Kennedy was in the White House, Neal Armstrong had not yet walked on the moon, Strom Thurmond was a Democrat and the problems with Social Security were perceived by few, other than Barry Goldwater.