The Entitlement Lie: A Conservative Reform of Social Security

AMERICAN THINKER

March 5, 2011

As the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives contemplates spending reductions, pushed along by our new Tea Party affiliated legislators, one common refrain from the Left is that such reductions are meaningless in the greater scheme of things. They claim that spending reductions without entitlement reform is futile. We can stipulate to the need to address the so called entitlements without agreeing that non-entitlement spending can be set aside for now. This claim is a big-spender's ruse in thrifty clothing -- a diversion from the fact that all government spending must be reduced. Nonetheless, blathering on the Left can occasionally include a nugget of truth and one cannot argue with the need for addressing so-called entitlement programs.

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