Latest Pathetic Conservative Attack on Social Security: Disability Fraud Hysteria

By Lynn Stuart Parramore

January 28, 2013  |  Conservatives are not happy. Despite their best efforts, the public continues to give Social Security a big thumbs up [3], and the President has just launched his second term with a speech hailing the program as a force that strengthens America.

You can understand their frustration. They’ve tried so very hard to make Americans think that we cannot afford to treat sick, disabled and elderly people with dignity while we subsidize the rich and fight unnecessary wars. But the public hasn't bought their solvency fabrications. And we haven’t been fooled by various pretenses for cutting, from the “chained CPI” adjustment to extending the retirement age again [4]. Even the means-testing ruse [5], cloaked as sensitivity to the poor but intended to drain public support for the program, hasn’t worked out for them so far.