Half of Americans Have Less Than $2,000 Banked for Their Golden Years
"The Alliance for Investor Education and the Employee Benefit Research Institute says one out of three working Americans does not have retirement savings beyond Social Security, and about 35% of those over 65 rely almost totally on Social Security alone. Half of Americans have $2,000 or less saved for retirement.
Poll: 62% Say War
Going "Badly"
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Records Show Senators Doubt Government Told Truth About Gulf of Tonkin
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday released hundreds of pages of previously classified Vietnam-era transcripts that show senators questioned whether they had been deceived into going to war by the White House and the Pentagon. At the time, there was widespread skepticism about the Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which the North Vietnamese were said to have attacked US destroyers. However, historians have concluded the attack never happened. INNworldreport.net
US National Guard to Arrive on Mexican Border on Aug. 1
US National Guard troops will begin arriving along the border with Mexico on August 1 as part of President Obama’s plan to increase border security. The administration has pledged to send up to 1,200 National Guard troops to the area for a year. Almost half of the National Guard force will go to Arizona.
Alan Bersin, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection: "National Guard is there to support the efforts of law enforcement, not to have a direct law enforcement role; not to confront, unless confronted, any particular threat. So this is a question of supporting law enforcement. The National Guard has done that extremely well in the past and, we trust, will do so again on this occasion." Democracynow.org
disapprove of President Obama’s handling of the war, a jump from 37 percent in May. The number of Americans who believe the war is going either "somewhat" or "very badly" also increased to 62 percent from 49 percent.
Record US Soldier
Suicides
in June
New figures show a record number of US soldiers took their own lives last month. At least thirty-two soldier suicides were reported in June, the highest monthly number since record keeping began around the Vietnam War. Seven of those soldiers killed themselves while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Democracynow.org
Clinton Unveils $500 Million in Aid Projects For Pakistan
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday unveiled $500 million worth of civilian aid projects for Pakistan in an attempt to counter rampant anti-Americanism in the country. The
aim of the projects was to show the U.S. relationship with Pakistan goes far beyond security." It represents a tripling of U.S. civilian aid to the country. INNworldreport.net
Poll: Blames Bush for Deficit,
Afghan Wwar
A new Bloomberg Poll has found George Bush, not Barack Obama, is being blamed for the budget deficit, unemployment and illegal immigration. Sixty percent say Bush is primarily responsible for the situation in Afghanistan. Barack Obama said recently Republicans "spent a decade driving the economy into a ditch," adding: "and now they're asking for the keys back. And my answer is, 'no, you don't know how to drive.' " INNworldreport.net