Correction, Please!
Running Amok With “Entitlements”
Telling tales? Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.), while defending entitlement spending, claimed that Social Security didn’t add to the U.S. debt, but since there isn’t any money in a Social Security trust fund, as many claim, it has added about $82 billion to the debt in the past two years. (Photo credit: AP Images)
Item: In The Hill for April 6, Representative Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.), the second-ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, wrote an op-ed entitled “Seniors, Say Goodbye to Your Healthcare,” charging that “the Republican budget dismantles Medicare as we know it — forcing seniors to purchase insurance on their own, no matter the cost or how sick they are. Their proposal slashes Medicaid by $1 trillion — threatening our sickest seniors and disabled Americans with no option for long-term care.”
Item: Writing in the New Republic for April 5, Jonathan Chait says that Representative Paul Ryan’s budget plan “is really simple. He cuts Medicare and other vital programs in order to finance a huge tax cut for people who don’t really need it.”
Item: Reporting on a reelection event in Silicon Valley in California, The Hill for April 20 noted that President Obama “strongly criticized House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s … proposal to curb entitlement spending, which he characterized as an attack on the Americans most in need. ‘I don’t think it’s particularly courageous,’ Obama said. ‘Nothing is easier than solving a problem on the backs of the people who are poor … and don’t have lobbyists and don’t have clout.’”
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