Dean Baker Exposes The Washington Post's Attack On Social Security With False Information

Dean Baker criticizes an article in the Washington Post on Social Security for a couple of reasons. In the first place it is not really a news article. He believes that it should be on the op-ed page as opinion, and not reported as headline news. His other point is that the article is highly mistaken in the claims that it makes to support the attack on Social Security that the Washington Post has been promoting, along with those who want to pay for the Bush tax cuts that primarily benefit the wealthy, by cutting entitlement programs.

I won't repeat all of the inaccurate claims exposed by Dean Baker. Everyone needs to learn more about how Social Security really works in order to participate in the discussions about reductions in entitlements. Healthcare is a long term problem but Social Security is not a difficult problem to fix with minor changes. One of the common approaches in the war over Social Security is to lump it with Medicare which does have long term cost problems.