What’s wrong with this picture?
Social Security has seven ‘Trustees’.
Five of the Trustees serve ex-officio, i.e., they’re automatically a Trustee because of their office — like the Treasury Secretary, Labor Secretary, etc.
One of the two who were appointed directly is Thomas R. Saving. If you look here you’ll see that he was a Trustee in 2004 and I’ve just confirmed with the SSA that he remains a Trustee for 2005.
Yet, according to this morning’s Houston Chronicle, he has just signed on to be an advisor and spokesman for one of the lead pro-Social Security phase-out astroturf groups, Progress for America.
Are his duties as a Trustee compatible with going to work for Progress for America?
