A Question of Numbers: the Social Security "Crisis"

Roger Lowenstein, writing in the The New York Times (registration required), looks at the history of Social Security, as well as the so-called "crisis" currently being manufactured by the Bush Administration with the aid of a compliant media.



(via Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo; if you don't want to mess with registering at the Times, Josh has a good summary of Lowenstein's article.)



And for more straight shooting on the issue, check out There is No Crisis.