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QOTD: They Create a Phony Argument

by: Dean Barker

Sun Jan 02, 2011 at 17:45:18 PM EST


Amen:
WG: Opponents of Social Security are deliberately confusing Social Security with Medicare; they are distorting reality. There are simple facts that should be reported: 1) Social Security never contributed a dime to the deficit; 2) Social Security softened the impact of the Reagan deficits by building up a surplus; 3) the federal government borrowed the money and spent it on other things; 4) the federal government has to pay this money back because it really belongs to the working people who paid their FICA deductions every pay day. The elites in both parties know the day is approaching when the federal government has to come up with the trillions it borrowed from the workers. That is the crisis the politicians don't want to deal with, so they create a phony argument that slyly blames working people for their problem. That's the propaganda they want the public to believe.
More than clear-eyed view of SS, this piece goes in depth into a critical problem with journalism today.  It's perhaps the most interesting thing I've read about this whole carnival in a long while.
Dean Barker :: QOTD: They Create a Phony Argument
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