here it comes....

[spanone]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-debt-fallout-how-social-security-went-cash-negative-earlier-than-expected/2011/10/27/gIQACm1QTM_story.html?hpid=z1

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Oh, fucking idiots.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Evil, lying, thieving scumbags

See my sig for details

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. The usual media shitheads. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Hey kids...they are bout to add more gas to the fire!!!!

Granny welcome aboard!

[robinlynne]

5. bullshit, bullshit, more bullshit. look at the 3 aricles under the main one; it gets even

worse.

[spanone]

6. just in time to bolster the super bullshit committee ...

[robinlynne]

14. yes.

[doublethink]

7. Holy Fuck ....

A headline like that even amazes me ... how stupid do they think America is? Please don't answer that question. :freak:

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Damn, and I was about to...

:hi:

[spanone]

9. okay

[sarcasmo]

10. War has been declared on the American people by the politicians and corporations.

[edhopper]

11. Here is dean Baker's take down of the article

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/washington-post-discards-all-journalistic-standards-in-attack-on-social-security

Washington Post Discards All Journalistic Standards In Attack on Social Security

News outlets generally like to claim a separation between their editorial pages and their news pages. The Washington Post has long ignored this distinction in pursuing its agenda for cutting Social Security, however it took a big step further in tearing down this barrier with a lead front page story that would have been excluded from most opinion pages because of all the inaccuracies it contained.

The basic premise of the story, as expressed in the headline ("the debt fallout: how Social Security went 'cash negative' earlier than expected) and the first paragraph ("Last year, as a debate over the runaway national debt gathered steam in Washington, Social Security passed a treacherous milestone. It went 'cash negative.'") is that Social Security faces some sort of crisis because it is paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes.

This "treacherous milestone" is entirely the Post's invention, it has absolutely nothing to do with the law that governs Social Security benefit payments. Under the law, as long as their is money in the trust fund, then Social Security is able to pay full benefiits. There is literally no other possible interpretation of the law.

Don't expect the Post to correct their lies.

[donheld]

15. +1000

[City Lights]

12. Lori Montgomery is either clueless, or getting a little extra under the table.

My guess is she's getting something under the table.

A fine example of why I refer to the "MSM" as the corporate hoore media.

A hearty "fuck you" to her and the Wa-Po for printing that steaming pile. And a :nuke: to the Wa-Po for putting the pile on the front page.

That rag isn't even worthy of being used as a liner in my cat's litter box. What a waste of resources.

[Joe Fields]

13. And they all laughed at Al Gore and the "lock box" proposal...

Fuck Ronald Reagan all to hell for dipping into the SS fund in the first place, and all of the other politicians who followed in his steps, while putting I.O.U's back into the fund.