Bob Herbert, today in the New York Times (1/25/11):
There has always been feverish opposition on the right to Social Security. What is happening now, in a period of deficit hysteria, is that this crucial retirement program is being dishonestly lumped together with Medicare as an entitlement program that is driving federal deficits.
He’s right. Where did I last readsomeone trying to pull off thatdishonest accounting? Oh yeah–it was in yesterday’s New York Times. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported on a poll that found people unwilling to support cuts to
Medicare and Social Security, the programs that directly touch millions of lives and are the biggest drivers of the long-term deficit.
