For Robert Samuelson on Social Security, Fact-Checkers Went AWOL

By Dean Baker

April 9, 2012 - 12:13pm ET 

Social Security and Medicare are hugely important for the security of the non-rich population of the United States. For this reason, Robert Samuelson and The Washington Post hate them.

As we know, this is a question of basic political philosophy. In the view of Samuelson and the Post, a dollar that it is in the pocket of low or middle class people is a dollar that could be in the pocket of the rich. And Medicare and Social Security are keeping many dollars in the pockets of low and middle class people.