They don't do much by way of analysis of a proposal by Republican Presidential candidate Fred Thompson to cut drastically cut Social Security benefits. (A 20-year old would see a benefit reduction of close to 40 percent under Mr. Thompson's proposal.)
The article includes this gem: "economists have said that without changes, the Social Security system will no longer have enough money to pay benefits to all retirees starting in 2041." Presumably it means the Social Security trustees, most of whom are political appointees of President Bush and not economists, where it says "economists." The economists who work at the Congressional Budget Office project that the fund will be fully solvent until 2046, almost thirty years after the latest date that Thompson could possibly leave the White House.
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