The guy knows how to run a business. And that is what SS needed.
The Social Security Act states a commissioner “may be removed from office only pursuant to a finding by the President of neglect of duty or malfeasance in office."
There is a great fallacy that Republicans seem to be completely bought into and that is "government should be run like a private business". Government should NEVER be run like a business because their basic goals are completely different.
Business exists to make a profit. Government's role is to fill in those areas of public need that are not profitable and cannot be successfully or equitably be dealt with by for-profit corporations.
It's never too late to get your retirement plans in order.
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The USA has the same numbers of old people as other first world nations, as a percentage of population, but they have much higher rates of higher rate among those adults of underlying chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, respiratory conditions, and heart disease. Lack of insurance and high co-pays keeps Americans from seeking treatment until their conditions are chronic and dangerous.
The USA also has a lower health system capacity - fewer beds per thousands of population, that most first world countries, because the high rates of uninsured Americans reduces profitability under your health care system.
Lack of competition and corporate consolidation has just resulting in a health crisis in the production of baby formula. When one company controls 50% of the market for a product, and that company has contamination problems which are killing babies, Joe Biden did not do that - but Ronald Reagan did, when he gutted the anti-trust laws, and let big business take control of markets, squeezing out smaller manufacturers and limiting imports.
Republicans make it their business to ensure government programs are so over-burdened with administration, means testing, and fraud control, that they cannot possibly be efficient or successful. That which they wish to destroy, must first be rendered unworkable. So they attack CRT and LGTB issues in public schools, while ignoring the impact of covid, 2 years of chaos, remote learning, and causing teachers to leave the profession by the thousands, in order to destroy public education, and ensure that poor and minorities students in poor districts don't even have a public school to attend. See New Orleans School District post Katrina.
This piece of what happened in New Orleans when charter schools move in was written in 2018, and contains additional links to several studies done by both opponents and proponents of Charter Schools. There is now a clarion call for repeal of the Charter School Experiment as a complete failure for the children of low income families in New Orleans, and calls for a return to "neighbourhood schools", which is now being backed up in study after study being completed by independent bodies.
Baker disagrees with the assumption that the portfolio-charter reform was the predominant cause of improvements. He identified two important factors downplayed by Harris and his team: the role of increased funding apart from the structural changes of school governance, and the significant reductions in the number of students who lived in extreme poverty, post-Katrina.
60,000 fewer children enroll in New Orleans schools post-Katrina. While many poor families were evacuated from the city, and many never returned, because their families lost their homes and had no money or insurance to rebuild. Since developers had long wanted to exploit waterfront land in the 9th Ward, politicians from all levels of government dragged their feet on any rebuilding of homes for the low income families living on that land before the Hurricane.
Capitalism does love to exploit a disaster.
