Speaking of Krugman

Go read what he has to say about Bush's attempt to fuck up social security. He uses the "L" word. No, I don't mean "lesbian."

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Still a Bush supporter?

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Do like I did and read it twice.. One of the biggest regrets that I have from my trip to Washington D.C. last year is that I did not get a picture of myself giving the finger of hostility in the general direction of the oval office.

There is simply no debate that the Bush administration willfully lies about it's policies at every single opportunity. That is demonstrable. In fact, lets just quote Mr. Krugman proving it.

Last week Jo Anne Barnhart, the commissioner of Social Security, published an op-ed article claiming that Social Security as we know it was designed for a society in which people didn't live long enough to collect a lot of benefits. "The number of older Americans living now," wrote Ms. Barnhart, "is greater than anyone could have imagined in 1935."

Now, it turns out that an article on the Social Security Administration's Web site, "Life Expectancy for Social Security," specifically rejects the idea the Social Security was originally "designed in such a way that few people would collect the benefits," and the related idea that the system faces problems from "a supposed dramatic increase in life expectancy in recent years."

And the current number of older Americans as a share of the population is just about what the founders of Social Security expected. The 1934 report of F.D.R.'s Commission on Economic Security, which laid the groundwork for the Social Security Act, projected that 12.7 percent of Americans would be 65 or older by the year 2000. The actual number was 12.4 percent.

Why is it that the MSM allows the Bush administration to state outright lies over and over? Why is it up to op/ed writers to point that out?

The media should write their stores thus:

Last week Jo Anne Barnhart, the commissioner of Social Security, published an op-ed article claiming that Social Security as we know it was designed for a society in which people didn't live long enough to collect a lot of benefits. "The number of older Americans living now," wrote Ms. Barnhart, "is greater than anyone could have imagined in 1935."

Only two possililities exist for the contradiction to fact. Either Ms. Barnhart is willfully ignorant of the facts related to the projections of 1934 report, or she is willfully lying about these facts. In either case, Ms. Barnhart must be fire. It is unacceptable to have a commissioner either factually or ethically challenged.

Reporting the news means you call a liar a liar when you know it for a fact.