The NYT reports that Barack Obama is attacking Hillary Clinton because she hasn't indicated how she plans to deal with the projected Social Security shortfall. It would have been helpful to inform readers that the Congressional Budget Office projects that the program will be fully solvent until 2046, almost 30 years after the latest date that Clinton could leave the presidency. While Senator Obama may feel a need to devise a financing schedule that can maintain full funding for the second half of the 21st century, it is understandable that Senator Clinton may view other matters, like fixing the health care system, as being more pressing.
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