Pete Peterson’s flying monkeys dropping dungbombs on Social Security

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Support on Capitol Hill for saving Social Security must be stronger than I thought: Pete Peterson’s flying monkeys are working overtime dropping dungbombs on anyone who opposes gutting the government program that lifted elderly Americans out of the grinding poverty that was their standard fate before 1935.

On Wednesday we saw the New York Times’ David “Mr. Peterson’s a great guy, really” Leonhardt favorably citing a WaPo piece by Robert Pozen that was a half-baked Sachertorte of anti-Social-Security myths, all of which CEPR’s Dean Baker had effortlessly punctured when Pozen had circulated them via the Boston Globe back in December. Friday, we see Charles Blahous, co-author of a “kill it to save it” report on Social Security that was (surprise!) funded in part by Pete Peterson, telling Americans yet again that anyone who defends Social Security from Peterson stooges like him is actually hurting America:

fate of an elderly couple pre the Social Security we know.

It is called Make Way for Tomorrow and tells the story of a couple married 50 years who lose their home after the husband loses his job. It is a sad story, but I'm sure that it reflects precisely what happens in such situations.

It doesn't take too many wicked witches to screw up our country when they can call on their winged baboons in the media and the voting machine companies to do the dirty work.

K&R for the spotlight on flying monkeys