Thank you, Michael Hiltzik of the LA Times:
… The anti-deficit lobbying organization “Fix the Debt” staged a question-and-answer chat on Twitter Thursday. Its goal presumably was to reach America’s smartphone- savvy youth with its message that Social Security and Medicare payments to their grandparents are going to land them in the poorhouse a few decades from now.
It’s fair to say that “Fix the Debt” got more than it bargained for. Twitterers from all over responded to the invitation with pointed, tactless and downright impolite questions. Many of them aimed to discern how paring social insurance benefits for the elderly and infirm will make society stronger, which is the core of the organization’s worldview. Those so inclined can still post their thoughts at #fixthedebtqa…
A couple of good roundups of the dialogue thus far can be found at the Washington Post’s knowmore site and at Liberaland…
Read the whole thing! Hiltzik also points out that ‘Fix the Debt’ is a front group for grifting austerity-bombers in the pay of billionaire anti-social-welfare crank Pete Peterson.
(Thanks to commentor Elizabelle for the link.)
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