The Social Security Scam: How Media-Driven Misdirection is Being Used to Hijack Your Future

By Josh Hilgart, New Deal 2.0
Posted on March 30, 2011, Printed on March 31, 2011
http://www.alternet.org/story/150438/

As the budget battle rages in Washington, calls to cut Social Security benefits are ramping up. Pundits pushing ‘conventional wisdom’ say that doing so is prudent for a nation facing large deficits. This solution is endorsed by congressional majorities, along with virtually every talking head on television (with varying degrees of rhetorical eagerness or caution, depending on party affiliation). The assumption that deficit reduction can be achieved through cuts to Social Security benefits is so ubiquitous that most Americans would be dumbfounded to learn that this assumption is totally false.