The Clinton-McCain Dream Panel? How About the Post Printing a Dissenting Voice on Social Security?

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The Jihad continues just blocks from the White House. The Washington Post has yet another column calling for fixing the incredibly solvent (by U.S. standards) Social Security system. There will be a day where real numbers, actual projections from the Congressional Budget Office in some real world context, will appear in the Washington Post. And then, Washington Post readers will realize that the paper's editors, coumnists, and reporters had been misleading them all these years into believing that Social Security was in a crisis. Okay, I'll stop dreaming.

--Dean Baker

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