Updates on the non-crisis

A good one by Josh Marshall about Social Security, national budgeting, rhetoric, and who picks up the tab.

As pretty much all the sensible articles on Social Security have made clear, to the extent that we have a problem, it is not a Social Security problem, but an accumulated national debt problem

Don't be taken in by the talk of imminent collapse; the main problem is that the government has been borrowing from SS to pay its other debts, and the current Administration just doesn't want to pay us back.