Connect with us on Facebook!
Subscribe.
Follow us on Twitter!
Make us your home page!
Authors, sign in!I was working up to doing a blog post about Social Security and Medicare because Tom Brokaw's slanted and biased comments made me so mad the other night during the debates. While doing some research on the net, I ran across a blog post that Elizabeth did. Since she says it better than me, I'll just direct you to hers. I encourage you to read her whole blog and experience outrage towards Brokaw and McCain for their wrongheaded comments about these essential programs.
Shame on Tom Brokaw for saying, during the recent presidential debate, that Social Security is broken, and that it forms (along with Medicare) “a big ticking time bomb that will eat us up maybe even more than the mortgage crisis.” The widespread claim that Social Security is broken, often-repeated by the media and by politicians in both parties, is complete nonsense.Read this sentence several times, to counteract the wrongness of the last several hundred news stories you’ve read on the topic: Social Security is running a surplus and has all the savings it needs to pay all promised benefits until 2046, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. (Read the entire post here!)
Published October 9, 2008 by Nora Thomason |
Permalink
| Tags:
John McCain
Medicare
Retirement
Social Security
