RED ALERT - Republicans are threatening to DEFUND SOCIAL SECURITY

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13. By calling it "payroll tax relief," they'll be able to deceive many Americans.

From Why Do They Hate Social Security? - by Joe Conason:

The foes of Social Security insist that they have no desire to force the elderly to eat cat food or go homeless—as they did in the years before the program existed. But we must cut drastically, they cry, because we can simply no longer afford the “entitlements” that we have bestowed so lavishly upon the old and the poor.

Whenever someone starts to talk about “entitlements,” keep in mind that they are either trying to bamboozle or they’ve been bamboozled themselves. Under that category, most commentators mix up Medicaid and Medicare—two programs that are indeed endangered by rising health care costs—with Social Security, which will be solvent until at least 2037 and can easily be made solvent for decades to come with minor changes. This is a rhetorical deception perpetrated countless times every day in nearly every media outlet.

The article is well worth the read.