Social Security

In keeping with the Bush administration's use of our own money to propagandize us to his policies, Social Security is now going to spend our money to promote its own demise. Josh Marshall quotes from The NY Times:

Social Security officials say the agency is carrying out its mission to educate the public, including more than 47 million beneficiaries, and to support the agenda of President Bush.

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They transgress every limit, every rule. Now the Armstrong Williams episode turns out to have been just a blip on the radar, a faint premonition. Your payroll taxes and the whole edifice of the Social Security Administration is being joined to Karl Rove's outside astroturf groups pushing the Social Security phase-out. Or, I guess you could say that your payroll taxes are being used to cheat you out of what you've spent the last decade or two or three paying them for.

Gives a whole new meaning to raiding the Trust Fund.

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Here's the page the Social Security Administration says to use if you have a complaint.

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One more thought: As we've tried to show in the last few days, when you dig down into the Social Security Administration website you find a wealth of information which directly contradicts the lies coming out of the White House. How much longer you figure that stuff's going to stay there? Perhaps some handy folks should start doing some quick site archiving. Call it the Memory Hole Project.

I can think of another name for it that ends in "Hole".

If you want to know all there is to know about what's happening with the Social Security issue, read Josh Marshall. He's all over it. It just makes my head spin.