Let's Cut Social Security So We Look Good

I read a newspaper every morning, so you would think I like newspapers. I do like them for the sports pages, the comics and the puzzles. I do not buy papers for political news. There are no good papers in that respect. I read the NY Times for 30 years, and it was, on a political level, a load of road apples.  What you get is a circle jerk of reporters and lame commentators repeating tips from one another that often have no relationship with reality. 

If I want political commentary, I go to magazines, which publish writers who have their own brains.

Recently the Washington beltwayers have decided that cutting back Social Security--in the richest nation in history--is the responsible thing to do.  Next, as J. Swift might say, we will be cooking and eating plump babies.

Below is a comment by TRUTHOUT.

"There are few areas where the corruption of the national media is more apparent than in its treatment of Social Security. Most of the elite media have made it clear in both their opinion and news pages that they want to see benefits cut. In keeping with this position they highlight the views of political figures who push cuts to the program, treating them as responsible, while those who oppose cuts are ignored or mocked.

"This pattern of coverage was clearly on display last weekend. Both the New York Times and Washington Post decided to ignore the Senate's passage by voice vote of the Sanders Amendment. This was an amendment to the budget put forward by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders that puts the Senate on record as opposing the switch to the chained CPI as the basis for the annual Social Security cost of living adjustment (COLA)."