Who are the Social Security Trustees? [View all]

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Last edited Fri Apr 27, 2012, 10:10 PM - Edit history (1)

All the numbers about the finances of Social Security are generated by the SS Trustees in their yearly report, including all projections about SS's future performance.

Who are these trustees?

1. Timothy Geithner
Prep school kid. Majored in Asian Studies at Dartmouth, fluent Chinese. Started his post-college career working for Kissinger. Protegee of Larry Summers. Uncle long-time State Dept muckety. Father long-time Ford Foundation muckety. Grandfather Ford advertising exec. G-grandfather = industrialist. Resume includes stints with the IMF and the Federal Reserve.)

2. Hilda L. Solis
Working class/immigrant kid made good; father Teamster shop steward, mother factory worker. Carter's WH Chief of Hispanic Affairs. LA Insurance Commissioner, Cal State Assembly & Senate, US Representative. US Sec of Labor.

3. Kathleen Sebelius
Catholic elite private school kid. Father = Ohio legislator and governor, USAID administrator. Husband also from a political (Republican) family. Kathleen = Kansas insurance commissioner, kansas house, kansas governor.

4. Michael J. Astrue
Prep school kid. WH associate counsel under Reagan and Bush. Ties to biotech industry, biotech law specialist. Service in HHS & SS depts.

5. Charles P. Blahous
Prep school kid, politically-connected family. Aide to Alan Simpson, Judd Greff. Director of anti-SS think tank Alliance for Worker Retirement Security. Bush Special Assistant for Economic Policy, Executive Director of Bush Commission to Strengthen Social Security. Deputy Director of Bush National Economic Council. Hudson Institute. Hoover Institution.

6. Robert D. Reischauer
Prep-school kid (son of Harvard prof & Japan specialist Edwin O. Reischauer). Helped establish Congressional Budget Office, former director CBO. Urban Institute (President), Brookings Institute. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Senior Fellow/Board of Overseers, Harvard Corporation. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Board of Directors. National Academy of Social Insurance Founding Member

7. Carolyn W. Colvin
Graduate Morgan State U (one of the historically black universities). Director of the Department of Human Services DC. CEO of AMERIGROUP Community Care. Special Assistant to Maryland Department of Transportation. Secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Resources. Deputy Commissioner for Operations, Programs and Policy, Social Security Admin. National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, NAACP.


5/7 = prep school/elite catholic school kids
Note on edit: Sebelius went to the catholic equivalent of prep school and private elite catholic college, not to a run of the mill "catholic school": Summit Country Day School & Trinity Washington University.

1/7 = working class background
1/7 = background unknown