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Everyone is freaking out over a phony crisis: report

Social Security Is Not “Running Out.” Politics Is Being Run Into the Ground.The Real StoryThe source material circles one central fact: Social Security is not collapsing because of some mysterious accounting failure. The fight is over who gets to define the crisis, who absorbs the blame, and who benefits from treating a political choice as an inevitability. Joseph C. Sternberg calls the trust fund a deception; Martin O’Malley says the program is being misdescribed; the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget warns of cuts; the Trump administration is actively weakening the agency that…

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