Krugman in Rolling Stone!

The Rolling Stone is interviewing economists? And it's about social security? Here's a link:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6822964?rnd=1108132147031&has-player=unknown

It's short and Krugman provides some good information on Bush's phoney social security crisis. College students and young workers need this information.

Outrageous Bush Social Security Lie

I was listening to NPR yesterday when they reported on Bush's trip in support of his Social Security agenda. They played a clip of Bush saying something like this:

"Young people today have a better chance of seeing a UFO than they do of seeing a Social Security check"

I'm quoting from memory, so I may not be word-perfect on that. I'll try to get the exact quote for you later.

This is scarcely his first lie about Social Security, but it is a whopper. As things stand, if nothing is done about Social Security, SS check will have to be reduced by something between 20 to 30 percent. That would happen somewhere between 2042 and 2052, depending on what estimate you're looking at. And that's only if we don't do something to fix system. Even inaction sounds way better than Bush's privatization "fix" which does nothing to find funds or reduce benefits. Those are the real choices once the smoke and mirrors are swept away.

Gannon

The Times weighs in on the Gannon case. They ignore the sleazy side of the case and go for the key issue of how does a non-journalist get a press pass to the White House under an assumed name. I've actually been following the investigation undertaken on Daily Kos for days now. I haven't mentioned it here before since the volume on DKos has been enormous and much of the commentary tangential. The mainstream news has been starting to pick up on it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/politics/11gannon.html

It's really cool that bloggers helped to discover this guy's identity. Naturally, the Times doesn't anything on that aspect of the story.

I've saved a copy of this in case anyone would like to see it after it's no longer visible on the Times site.