The Economic Policy Institute, a prominent leftie think tank, employs two staunch Social Security partisans, economists Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot, who co-authored a book titled Social Security: The Phony Crisis, arguing what its subtitle proclaims. Naturally, I stopped by the EPI's web site, www.epinet.org, and clicked Social Security, to see what the EPI's sages had to say. My first stop was their item "Social Security: Facts at a Glance." Propaganda at a glance is a better description. The section "Facts About Social Security Benefits" opens with the statement that Social Security, or Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI), was … Continue reading Social Security: Mendacity and Mythmaking