Good morning, Whitewater
In our school district today, there will be a middle school band concert at the high school tonight.
The Farmers’ Almanac predicts that it will become stormy especially in the Great Lakes. The more flexible forecasting of the National Weather Service predicts a different prospect — mostly sunny and 62 degrees.
According to the Wisconsin Historical Society, in this day in 1891, Arthur J. Altmeyer was born, in DePere. I had never heard of him, but they describe him as the father of Social Security.
There’s an alternative approach on Social Security — that some or all of it could be privatized. Over at Cato, they have a post on a successful privatization approach from El Salvador, a country that has a private pension system.
It hardly seems politically possible to take that approach here, but it has worked well elsewhere.
Quick note: still typing away on notes from recent meetings. More soon.