Another article on the president’s pitch to black leaders at the White House on Tuesday: You die so young, you’re not getting a good deal from Social Security.
Since the president now seems inclined to bang on this patently dishonest argument, it’s probably time for someone to pipe up and explain that the study the president is relying on has already been discredited by studies by the Social Security Administration and what was then still called the Government Accounting Office for errors so elementary that they were almost certainly intentional.
Some, though not all of those errors, are explained in this recent editorial from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
