>> i like to think of social media and the reason why we use social media as the 3r's of social media. won his reputation, relationships and research end of phase one of the most important his reputation, certainly for writers promoting their book. we have seen in the last several months a couple of people make very very grave misjudgment not necessarily mistakes, bad and the case of roland martin and his remarks whether you think they were or not were taken to be so and he was suspended for a month. here is a brother who could have been on the verge of possibly getting his own show probably still is, since they have now put them back on the air but he could have blown that. he is a journalist but he also has been an author and the same thing charles pelot of "the new york times" made similar comments. we have seen stories that people are judging whether you should get a scholarship in looking at your facebook page. and in the last workshop i was and they were talking about book proposals that publishers are looking at for facebook page. not only to see how many followers you have but

social security, the social security system from the beginning has been very closely monitored and has always been very conservatively managed. so efly year it projects out 75 years. now when you project out that far you going to show these fluctiations. recently trustees reports have shown that the exhaas shen date is 2028, others show 2048. so 2033, 2035, 2036 are all within that range. the important point is what you said, social security is projected to have a $60 billion surplus this year. it has a 2.7 trillion dollar accumulated reserve. and it has two decades, 20 years to-- congress has 20 years to figure out, ideally sooner to give peace of mind, but of all the federal programs it is in the best shape. >> suarez: david john, generally in good shape or generally in danger. >> generally in danger. today's report essentially is similar to if you are falling. the good news is we haven't hit the ground yet. but the trajectory is accelerating. >> suarez: with you both looking at the same stats what is giving you such a gloomier outlook? >> well, because the overall actuaryial deficit

today we herd about the long-term financial future of social security and medicare. these programs serve as a critical lifeline for millions of americans specially for those experiencing these tough economic times. today close to 54 million americans receive social security benefits that includes 38 million retirees, ten million americans with disabilities and six million survives of deceased workers. social security also serves as a critical role in combatting poverty in this country. in fact, it's estimated that if social security payments were excluded from income the number of older people in poverty would incroce by almost 14 million individuals. however, challenges remain for social security and medicare and thus the retirement security of many americans who depend on the benefits they provide. secretaries have both stressed the importance of legislative actions to address these challenges. we know that cost for both programs are continued to increase due to the continued retirement by the baby boom generation and lower birthrates for younger generations. peopl

one people are applying for social security benefits. let me address that in the context of the projections that we make working for our board of trustees in the administration. working with our advisory board and their technical panel and others in developing aassumptions and projections into the future of what the cost of social security, the retirement system and the disability system are looking like in the future. well, first of all, let me flip to a slide. got to have a picture. the slide -- there are two ways, i think, that we could really address this question of why we had this run-up in claims and people applying for disability. one is a near-term psych lickal phenomenon which relates to the fact we had a recent, pretty significant recession in this country, as you all know. the recession resulted in a lot of people becoming unemployed. we went up to a 10% unemployment rate, and when people become unemployed they seek a way to continue having income, and people that can qualify for the sdpabled worker benefits, of course, go an

and the social sex and lots of other small creatures that reach very high levels of social organization. >> rose: bees, ants. >> termites. there are few others that became highly social. pretty well taken over the earth. >> rose: by highly social means simply the capacity to live together in groups. >> it means living together in groups. we use a special term eu social. eu which means good or soid or secure. and we say that word for these societies in which there is a lot of cooperation. and some division of labor so that a few individuals live longer. and reproduce more than the others as part of the social organization. and that's what the ants, bees, wasps and various other ma'am mulz. -- mammals. it raises the question that if high social organization which we manifest more than anything, is so successful wise and more common. so i've raised the question, and i've also said why does it take so long to evolve. humans, most of the history of life which is over billions of years before we appeared. and the ants, the bees and the wasps dominate. i mean they make up most of the insect bi

and social security. social security disability and medicare.s a shot at the paul ryan plan. the treasury secretary, today. i mean, that is really low ball. the truth is obama has done nothing. there are bipartisan plans out there. on medicare, there was certainly one in the clinton administration. he had a panel that proposed something very much like the premium support plan that paul ryan and the republicans in the house proposed. and then there is a social security plan. it's not one we know, but speaker gingrich and president clinton agreed on reform plan in 198 # which would have done what everybody knows has to be done. raise edge of eligibility and do some means testing. unfortunately, this was late 19 # 7. before it could have been formalized and announced, monica lewinsky stepped on scene an changed everything. there are things that can be done. proposed on bipartisan basis. and obama has been no help. >> bret: mara, specifically, this report today says social security disability trust fund, 11 million americans tap in to that will run

and it would hurt the rest of social security. the trustees responsible for social security have downshifted their outlook for wages and tax revenues. that's why they are now predicting social security's biggest deficit since 1983. >> congress must begin the process of deciding what levels of benefits and taxation best serve the interests of younger americans who are increasingly uncertain whether they can count on social security. >> reporter: but if congress acts, the obama administration wants a balanced approach. >> we will not support proposals that sow the seeds of their destruction in the name of reform or that shift the cost of health care to seniors in order to sustain tax cuts for the most fortunate americans. >> reporter: the romney campaign concentrated its fire on medicare, saying today's reports show the president has no real reform plan. medicare's finances changed little over the last year. but, that's in part because the trustees assume congress will make dramatic cuts in payments to doctors. if congress blinks, a

. >> according to the treasury department social security and medicare financial status report, the social security trust fund for retirees and disability will run dry in 2033. three years earlier than projected last year. this is 30 minutes. >> good afternoon and welcome. i want to welcome my fellow trustees from the treasury and take this opportunity to thank the chief actuaries, steve gossen rick foster and their staffs brought their hard work on these reports. every year as you know the social security and medicare boards of trustees issue reports to congress on the strength of these two indispensable programs, and we just minutes to complete this year's financial review and to transmit to congress the final reports. millions of americans rely on social security and medicare for income and for health care, and billions more will do so in the future. as today's report makes clear these programs have the resources they need to fulfill their commitments to the american people for years to come, but what these reports also reinforce is that we must take steps to keep these programs hole fo

it calls for social security reform that reforms social security to make it solvent, not for deficit reduction. all the savings from social security go to extending the solvency of social security, none for deficit reduction. it restores the 75-year solvency of social security. it strengthens the safety net with an enhanced minimum benefit for low wage workers. a bump up in benefits for our oldest seniors, and the longtime disabled. and a hardship exemption for those unable to work past 62. all of these were part of the original bowles-simpson proposal and i've carried them through to this proposal. it gradually increases the maximum level of wages taxed for social security and raises the retirement age, but only very gradually, reaching age 69 by 2075. with respect to the enhance the minimum benefit provision, i received a commitment during the fiscal commission discussions that it would be better targeted to protect low-income b beneficiaries and i am committed to seeing that provision improved. the fiscal commission budget plan also includes the fundamental tax reform that was inc

social security's is at 6.7% of taxable payroll. that's a term of art, but basically that's the program's tax base in worker wages. that's a 0.44 worsening relative to last year. the projected depletion date of the combined trust funds is now anticipated to be 2033. that's been moved up from 2036. so we've lost some ground not only because of passage of time and legislative action but it's weaker than prooeftsly projected. the 2033 date is the earliest projected by the trustees in more than a decade of trustees reports. given the magnitude it's actually not. our window for dealing with it without actually disruptive consequences is closing rapidly. in 2033 as has been said we would have enough revenue coming in to pay 5% of scheduled benefits or the payroll tax would have to be raised from 12.4% to 16.7%. now that 25% benefit reduction one must bear in mind assumes we would be willing to cut benefits for people on the rolls. when you factor into account the shared desire on the part of many policymakers to shield people already rece

made up of the nation's leading experts on social insurance. increasing public understanding of how social insurance contributes to economic security. the social security disability insurance program currently provides income support to more than 9 million people with disability than their family members, a total of more than $9.5 billion in benefits monthly. the number of people receiving benefits has increased together going over the past several decades. 6.5 million people receive benefits as recently as 2005, and in 1995, the number was one for .2 million. the disability insurance trust fund is projected to be exhausted in the near future, as soon as 2016 according to cbo and 2018 according to the 2011 social security trustees report. journalists, researchers and congress have focused a great deal of attention on the growth and the number of ssdi beneficiaries. a number of questions have been raised about the program. does the growth reflect demographic trends and changes, or is the growth due to rules and policies? what is the role of the

for me growing up, social workers came to my house. i wonder how much help they are getting in the system the luck of the community and look at flaws and characters of the family they serve rather than the reality of the experience. when you combine this with low expectations, lets just give the community something rather than how we restore and double the community that h been beaten down. >> i am a legislative aide for supervisor olague. i wanted to read a public statement that we got from the youth commissioner for district 5. i will read what he submitted to us. i am a youth commissioner from district 5 and a member of the commission was a youth justice committee. i would like to ask for yourself ending in the senseless violence impacting the community. we had another -- there are afraid because of the constant threat of violence. some recommendations are increasing support for youth employment, making sure that it is a safe place for people to travel. and having more creative activities. he said to please call him because he hopes

she was five years white house social secretary. miss abel orchestrated dinners for kings and prime ministers and planned two white house weddings and advanced presidential trips from manhattan to manila. she designed and carried out events as different as an lbj ranch barbecue, state dinners in bo bangkok and white house country affairs. and also on the panel is katherine s. fenton, she's the current director of the governor's residence in new jersey and serves as special adviser for protocol to the governor's chief of protocol and director of the first ladies staff. she's a former special assistant to president and social secretary for the first administration of president and mrs. george w. bush where she planned and implemented all entertaining within the white house complex. and then lastly, laurie firestone who is a california native. she served as white house social secretary to george h.w. bush and first lady barbara bush for eight years at the vice president's residence and four years at the white house. her duties included

our team is built up of a multidisciplinary staff, including social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapist, psychologists, and health workers who have multiple experience with diverse populations. we also are a multi-link listed unit, which include spanish, cantonese, mandarin, vietnamese, tagalog, and russian. we also have other languages available with telephone interpreter services. >> to give you a little bit of information, the child crisis services provides crisis assessment intervention and stabilization for san francisco children under age 18 or publicly-funded youth, a privately-funded, and uninsured clients. we are a 24-hour a day service seven days a week with clinical staff available at all times. we are a mobile service that response to schools, emergency rooms, foster homes, group homes, residential treatment centers, and we also provide services in our office, which is located in the baby. in addition to that, we provide phone tree not for many more cases. in the thousands. i did not have the actual number of what it was last year. we have a flexible ser

it's being based on social networks and social media everything from facebook to twitter, which is bringing us back, thankfully i think, to a combination of people publishing things but also people forming communities, forming circles, forming discussion groups. and in some ways instead of resembling the web, the social media phase of the internet, i think, will resemble more of the first phase of the internet that was based around communities, sharing of information, and internet chat and internet relay h chat. so with that introduction, i was going to start with marcus because marcus with "the washington post" has been at the forefront now of not so much the web, but social media with a good partnership with facebook. i was wondering how you think in the next five years both your partnership with facebook and social media will change what you do as a traditional newspaper editor. >> thank you, walter. thank you for putting this on. being called an expert by walter, who knows media more than i do. but even we have our idea of the futu future. and "washington post" has had a fairly close re

it calls for social security reform that ensures the 75-year solvency of social security, and it calls for social security savings to be used only to extend the program's solvency, not for deficit reduction. finally, it includes fundamental tax reform, tax reform that will make the tax code simpler, fairer and more efficient while raising revenue. here is the deficit trajectory under the plan. as i noted, it brings the deficit down to 1.4% of gdp by the end of the decade, well below the 3% level, which is this here, which most economists say is critically important to do. over the ten years of the plan, spending averages 21.8% of gdp which is below the level we experienced during the reagan administration. let me say that again. over the ten years of the plan, spending averages 21.8% of gdp which is below the level we experienced during the reagan administration. it brings discretionary spending, those funds appropriated by congress each year, down from 8.4% of gdp in 2012 to an historic low of 4.8% by 2022. like the original fiscal commission plan, it does not reopen the health care r

that there's no color for revolution without the social base you have the social basis you can manage very easily money put away all the social groups which are protesting ok i'll do social groups which are ready workers but you'll have to start with i mean they come on the consciousness of the economical or social broad problems which are real so the problem has to be economical or social rather than a regime problem like i think tater should for example is say about ninety per cent of every society can live and decide these are for central and eastern europe are first and foremost interested into the social and economical interests which means not that they don't care about politics they don't care about political system they don't care about their character or political regime they are just worried about what they are and their economic prospects about the possibilities are for them they're keeping their families on the second and social level and the this is the most important factor in every room for an outsider for someone who observes purchased and called revolutions all you se

is the rise of social media in defining political social lines the most important trend of our timespologize to making the susan g. koman foundation reverse course to the most recent movement. the common theme has been the grassroots power of the net to create effective campaigns with very real and immediate for rolling stone whose most recent piece documented a string of progressive internet champaign successes, and mother jones reporter andy kroll. thank you so much for joining us. tim let me begin with you, is the social media beginning to define our political agenda. are they able to set more what we are talking about than the main stream media. >> i think so. we have been watching this circus unfold on the sidelines. all of a sudden congress reversed course. the susan g. koman foundation had this golden reputation and just found itself getting eaten apart for days and days. and then walked back this terrible decision they made. you have seeing these corporations and mcdonalds and others being associated with alec. >> right. >> and other states. you know just people are aware of

it calls for social security reform that ensures the 75-year solvency of social security, and it calls for social security savings to be used only to extend the program's solvency, not for deficit reduction. finally, it includes fundamental tax reform, tax reform that will make the tax code simpler, fairer and more efficient while raising additional revenue. the next chart shows the deficit trajectory under the plan as i noted. it brings the deficit down to 1.4% of gdp by the end of the decade, well below the 3% level that is viewed as sustainable. it stabilizes the debt, as i indicated, by 2015 and begins to bring it down steadily after that. over the ten years of the plan, spending averages 21.8% of gdp, which is actually below the level that we experienced during the reagan administration. the plan brings discretionary spending, those funds appropriated by congress each year, down from 8.4% of gdp in 2012 to an historic low of 4.8% by 2022. and i think we all acknowledge that health care spending is the 800-pound gorilla. although health care reform law adopted in 2010 made progress

by law social secretary funds do not have the ability to borrow. much of the rest of the government if it is in need of it doesn't have the ready cash reserves to pay for things, it can borrow them. social security trust fund cannot do that by law so we have to have it above zero and that's why when we see the numbers dropping as you do outsourced 2036 or even earlier for the di trust fund, that represents a real problem that the congress has to address. should mention though that for the di fund under our projections as the year 2018, assuming nothing were done we would still have enough continuing income coming in from taxes that are scheduled in the law at the time to pay full 86% of the scheduled benefits. it not as if the trust and goes out of business and we don't have any more payments but we would be 14% short of the funds necessary to pay the full schedule benefit on a timely basis. so if we can go to the next slide, this gives a different work. rather than working in looking at the trust funds, this next slide gives you a look at what the

we're a social publisher building a site from the ground up to be for the social web, and that's true now. it wasn't true a year or two ago that, that's what the industry was focused on. >> rose: explain to me how a company might use it, though, take the ideas you have. if that's what-- how would they go about, let's say, introducing a product? >> so, the first shift i i think we've seen is happening with editorial content. we have reporters, we have editors creating things that people find worthy of sharing. and that's a higher bar than something you find in a search engine or something you click. you're sharing it with your friends. that's the first shift we've seen with the editorial content. now we're seeing brands, also seeing the value of branded content and social content, and now brands are jumping in saying, "i don't want to just interrupt people with my television commercial. i want to make something that people see and share with their friends because that's a much more meaningful way. >> rose: and they do that in which way? >> they create their own page on buzz feed and pu

welcome to the conversation on social media and privacy. are you there? >> yes, ma'am. >> you're on the air. >> hello. the day. i enjoyed reading your book. >> thank you. >> do you have a question? turn your television volume down. speak up please. >> okay. i want to know why this whole thing about people losing jobs, being fired from jobs where things totally unrelated to how well they perform their job, why hasn't this spurred action as far as giving people more rights in the workplace where innocence and proof of guilt obviously does not apply? >> sure. that's an important question. one-third of employers say they fire people for having a drink in their hand, even just an innocent one class at a wedding. the most recent trend is for employers to ask for your private password. to get into bed, we are seeing some changes. .. privacy is important. free speech is important, and yet you have high school kid being expelled because they didn't like a class or coach on their myspace page in one case a 50 some-year-old friend friended the hot sexy defendant in

what foogle said is we are going to essentially do what those social networks and portals do is have one policy that applies to our products. the tradeoff is this, and this is one i think mark brifls with. the vast majority of consumers, 90% are okay with this concept that these social networks an companies like google provide free services like web based email service like mapping services like search services and they do that for free because they're able to sell non-personally identifyable information about the things you do on the internet the producesing habits you have, whether you go to sports sites or shopping sites and they're able to tell advertise thaers this user an again it's not personally identifiable that this user on this computer happens to like sports sites so they're able to sell you ads that are more relevant and they're able because of that ad revenue then to provide those free services. >> you're saying people understand in the age of internet comes free with ads and people understand that? >> people understand that and people want ads that are more relevant to

did for social security of their beneficiary population.and we found in that survey, and this was from, i believe, 2005 or -- yeah, 2005, that 50% of all ssdi and ssi recipients combined, working-age recipients, lived in households whose incomes were below the poverty line. and now if we just look to ssi, it's 70%. ssdi only, those just on ssdi, it's more like 30%. but that's a very high poverty rate relative to the overall population. there's also been a body of research that's not on this slide about the hardships that people with disabilities who live in impoverished households experience. they experience hardships such as not going out, going without food, not being able to get medicine they need much more frequently than people without disabilities who live in poverty, you know, with the same level of income. so i think going back i think this is enough of a reason to consider disability policy broadly and whether or not it needs restructuring. but the thing that's really rising interest in disability policy isn't these factors, which

it's blowing up you know bernie made up of eventually had to come clean that's a ponzi scheme so social security gets by definition a ponzi scheme the way it's constructed and the fact that the government has borrowed against social security to invest in their friends on wall street to create trillions more phantom paper assets to drive the cost of living higher means that social security won't be able to cover the cost of living if they had not left the if they just left the cash in the accounts then that would not have happened in the maybe it would have lasted another fifty years but because it's been unmercifully pillaged by government now it's running out it'll run out a lot sooner than that statement but i predict it will run out in ten years well max one final thought there is you know the youngsters left behind when all these retirees and baby boomers go south to mecca. the cocos three could to retire you have a fence there a border fence you could keep them out i told you when they put that fence between mexico and america that this was not about keeping mexicans out it's about