Hands Off Social Security: There Are Better Ways to Cut the National Debt

Saturday 26 June 2010

by: Robert Weiner and Jonathan Battaglia | The Palm Beach Post | News Analysis

The Social Security Trustees' Annual Report on the program's finances comes out Wednesday, delayed from March by the health bill. It will be turned into a marketing tool by advocates of cutting Social Security to reduce the national debt.

Among those, the president's newly appointed National Commission on Fiscal Reform (the "debt commission") is threatening to strangle the economic lifeblood of seniors by denying the solvency of Social Security and then using the solvent funds for other purposes.