Robert wrote: This NYT fact check needs a fact check, or at least a copy edit by someone who understands how arithmetic works.
"The drop in military budgets as a share of G.D.P. is due less to any reductions for the Pentagon and more to the fact that a growing piece of the federal budget pie is being consumed by spending for entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security as more baby-boomers reach retirement age." *************************** Not only that, the editors' are lying--maybe I should say that they are slanting their information to fit the conservative agenda to trash social spending and replace it with private enterprise. Social Security, here in the NYT editor-speak, appears as something which the ruling class can't afford anymore, causing deficits and so on. Actually, the working class has paid more than enough in surplus value for the paltry sum which it gets it gets back in retirement. Also, the big problem for Medicare and Medicaid is the capitalist system itself i.e. private, for profit healthcare which is WAY more pricey than government provided healthcare in other industrialised political States. Mike B) *********************************************************************** Wobbly Times http://wobblytimes.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
