Opinion: Feb. 24, 2011 buzz: Mind on my money and my money on my mind
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‘As an issue, Social Security is a little like Israel,’ writes Op-Ed columnist Doyle McManus in his Thursday column. ‘Different sides interpret the same information, and sometimes the same words, very differently.’ Thankfully, he presents ‘just the facts’ about Social Security in his Thursday column.
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In the editorial pages, the board offers the easiest solution to the problem in Wisconsin, to which commenter ‘jopsjennings’ has replied, ‘No one is going to like this editorial because it is excessively reasonable.’*
[*A spelling error in this comment was corrected for clarity.]
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In another prescriptive editorial, the board offers a solution to the housing market mess:
The government should start shrinking Fannie and Freddie -- by reducing the size of the loans that they may buy or guarantee and increasing the required down payment, in addition to selling off some of their holdings -- and then should see whether mortgages grow increasingly unaffordable or homeownership declines sharply. Ultimately, the federal government’s support should be limited to helping those who can afford a home but whom the market isn’t serving. That’s a far more limited role than the one Fannie, Freddie and the FHA are playing today.
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And of course, there’s Libya.’We owe it to [the protesters] to help ensure that their journey has not been in vain,’ writes Sarah Leah Whitson, director of the Middle East and North Africa division at Human Rights Watch in To oust a tyrant.
--Alexandra Le Tellier
