The Big Liars

To emphasize the quote in the post below about the Bushies going "all out," this New York Times story says they are enlisting the Social Security administration itself in their disinformation campaign. Ignoring the objections of people within the agency, they are politicizing the information function of an important program's administration to spread their lies about the imminent demise of Social Security benefits, unless the Bush plan to destroy Social Security saves it.

So not only are they trying to destroy Social Security in order to save it, they are forcing the Social Security administration to lie about their own program by saying they are failing when they aren't, so they can promote its destruction.

This needs to be an issue, because it seems like it should be illegal, and if it is, Social Security beneficiaries and payers into the system (which means just about all of us) may have standing to take the Bushies to court.

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