{"entry":{"title":"Don't Cut Meager Social Security Benefits","date":"Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:00:00 -0600","author":"Jeff Madrick, New York Times","description":"
The most misleading tactic of deficit hawks -- those who aggressively insist that reducing the federal budget deficit, and soon, is the nation’s most important domestic priority -- is to claim that Social Security is a major source of the future deficit. They do this by always lumping Social Security with Medicare and Medicaid as the leading causes of future deficits.<\/p>","original_link":"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2013\/01\/02\/should-social-security-cuts-be-considered\/no-need-to-cut-the-little-that-social-security-recipients-get"}}