He's a potent anti-Orwellian force:
Let us begin with the word "spend." Is the government "spending" money on people whenever it does not tax them as much as it can? Such convoluted reasoning would never pass muster if the mainstream media were not so determined to see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil when it comes to Barack Obama.
Ironically, actual spending by the Obama administration for the benefit of its political allies, such as the teachers' unions, is not called spending but "investment." You can say anything if you have your own private language.
His distinction between wealth and income is useful, too: "People over 65 years of age have far more wealth than people in their thirties and forties -- but lower incomes."
ReplyDeleteMost people do not understand that Social Security and Medicare are (a) two of our biggest national expenses, and (b) largely provide their benefits to the wealthiest Americans.