Dr. Phil
The fact that Phillip McGraw doesn't have a license to practice clinical psychology in California hasn't kept his TV alter ego, Dr. Phil, from practicing TV psychology. His most recent run-in with Britney Spears' family raised questions when he visited her in her hospital room privately and then released information to the public. Although the California Board of Psychology prefers to treat Dr. Phil as an entertainer first and a clinical psychologist never, real psychologists think he's giving them a bad name.See All of Forbes' Career Fakers
Marilee Jones
Jones managed a nearly three-decade fake-out. In 1979 she applied to work in the admissions office of MIT with a creative spin on her credentials. In particular, she said she possessed degrees from three schools although she had not received a degree from one and had no record of attending the other two. The irony: She co-authored 'Less Stress, More Success,' a 2006 book geared toward high schoolers that urged readers not to make up information. "You must always be completely honest about who you are," it says.James Frey
Online media outlet The Smoking Gun ousted Frey for writing a faked memoir in its January 2006 story "A Million Little Lies: Exposing James Frey's Fiction Addiction." Frey's A Million Little Pieces chronicled his experiences with drugs, alcoholism and crime. In a six-week probe, The Gun found that Frey embellished on a number of facts, such as turning a cordial detainment by police for a few hours into a frightful fight with officers that led to an 87-day stay in jail.Jayson Blair
The New York Times was duped by an employee of five years who had fabricated information and plagiarized regularly in his articles. After Blair resigned in May 2003, the Times commissioned a committee to get the full story. Blair had described things he never saw, quoted people he never talked to, and in some instances copied from stories in other publications. A year later, his "Burning Down My Master's House: My Life at the New York Times" was published.Is Retiring Early Unpatriotic? By JAY MACDONALD, BANKRATE.COM
Want to do something truly patriotic to help preserve the American way of life?
Don't retire. At least not yet.
That's the advice of Andrew Yarrow, vice president and director of the Washington, D.C., office of the nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization Public Agenda.
Yarrow urges the nation's 78 million baby boomers to forgo traditional or early retirement and work for a few more years, for their own sake and the good of the country.
If boomers all turn in their keys at age 55, 62 or 65 and head for the Tuscan hills, that great sucking sound you'll hear is untold amounts of taxpayer dollars being leached from the economy. That is money heirs will either have to replace or do without.
It's an act Yarrow calls "profoundly selfish and unpatriotic."
"The argument for working longer is not just about people working to pay more taxes; it's about people working to have more income and wealth themselves, to save for their own lives and their children and grandchildren," says Yarrow, who is also a professor of U.S. history at American University in Washington, D.C.
"This is an intergenerational issue," says the author of "Forgive Us Our Debts: The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility."
"This idea of 'getting what's mine as soon as possible' really doesn't think about future generations."
Yarrow notes that when people work longer, they not only continue to pay taxes and produce additional goods and services to spur the economy, but also slow the growth of the national debt.
The debt currently stands at $9.3 trillion and is largely driven by rising Medicare and Social Security costs.
Today, the average retirement age is 62. If millions of Americans worked five more years and retired at 67, the added income would provide about $800 billion in additional tax revenues and reduce benefit costs by at least $100 billion in 2045, according to a 2006 Urban Institute study.
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