1939 Shepard News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Extract in the way of concessions. it can't perpetually go on forever, adding trillions and trillions to the national debt, but this particular debate about the debt ceiling vote is common going back to 1939. >> shepard: right. we raised the debt ceiling over and over, every presidency on the right and left, it's happened every single time. the problem is the number is getting big. now the politics of it all seems to be that republicans are saying, whatever it is that you raise this by, let's say you raise the debt ceiling by a billion dollars, you raise it by a billion dollars, a need a billi...

Supreme court, what is the primary argument the government is using to not pay the benefits? >>guest: well, it boils down do this: the government says through modern technology she was able to bring children into the world but the fact is she is a surviving parent who brought children, created them and birthed them knowing the deceased dad, their dad in this case, was not going to be around to be earning wages and paying into the social security system, and for that reason this child, these childrens, actually, are not going to be considered beneficiaries for social security purposes. the fact...