This week’s big story is that a faker scammed the media, trashing an innocent USDA employee’s career in order to push a false right-wing narrative. But another scam’s underway too, and it’s targeting Social Security and other entitlement programs. As Republicans (and at least one Democrat) pushed budget-busting tax cuts, the “bipartisan” leaders of the Deficit Commission showed their true colors as extremists who peddle panic and hold “hearings” despite having their minds already made up. One of them said that the Federal debt is a “cancer,” adding that you “can’t tax your way out of it” – and that was the Democrat! Meanwhile the Republican complained that November’s elections will be “disruptive,” creating “wreckage” that will interfere with their plans.
When you think about it, Shirley Sherrod and the the Social Security system have a lot more in common than their initials.
