Budget Control Act Military Cuts Will Cover the Social Security Shortfall

Thursday, 26 April 2012 11:09 
By Robert Naiman, Truthout | Report 

A key reason that it's relatively easy to scaremonger about predictions regarding Social Security's finances decades in the future is that the language often used to talk about Social Security's finances isn't immediately comparable to anything else that most people can relate to. A number that isn't comparable to other numbers you know is a meaningless number. How big a difference is seven trillion dollars? It sounds like a huge number. But in a context devoid of comparable numbers, it's a meaningless number.