In his Tuesday column, Paul Krugman hits the big question that shames every reporter who hasn’t posed it to the president or whichever other privatizers they can finagle a minute with. It’s as simple as this: the privatizers base their predictions about privatization on a 21st century of robust economic growth while they foretell Social Security’s bleak future based on a 21st century of anemic economic growth — a classic apples and oranges comparison which, if anyone were paying attention, would stop the whole debate in its tracks.
If you’re not Tim Russert, read the column. If you are, hang your head in shame, buy an abacus and then go read Krugman.
