http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2012/09/30/why-media-bias-matters-aps-ohlemacher-fibs-and-obfuscates-social-securit
The news media will be instrumental in the destruction of our country. You want proof? Here it is. Medicare and Social Security are enormous entitlement programs that have unfunded future liabilities of over $100T. Both programs are rapidly going broke because they are fundamentally and structurally unsustainable. They are, in effect, Ponzi schemes. Both will be insolvent in the near future. This is well documented by the SSA and Medicare actuaries, the CBO, GAO and numerous conservative policy organizations. Our fiscal 'come to Jesus' day is rapidly approaching. How we deal with this impending crisis is largely going to be determined by the news media. If they are honest and unbiased in their reporting, they will inform Americans about the enormity of the problem we face and they will hold all politicians accountable for their response to this crisis. Unfortunately, that is not the path that the mainstream media normally takes. They will lie. They will lie to protect the current president from anything that might reflect poorly on him in the last 37 days until the election. They will lie to protect the liberal/socialist politicians whom they support. Those politicians have made a career of promising other people's money to their constituents in order to buy votes. The jig is up. At the local, state and national level, we have spent all of other people's money. We've spent our money. We've spent the inheritance from our more industrious forefathers. We've spent the money we borrowed for communist China. We've spent our children's money as well as their children's money. So now the jig is up. We are tottering on the brink and action must be taken now. Because of the enormity of the problem and since it has been ignored for so long, there will be no easy solutions. Whatever we do to solve this problem will involve some pain and sacrifice. But if we do nothing, the laws of mathematics and economics will surely solve it for us. If we allow these entitlement programs to continue as is, they will fail. And when they fail, so will our nation. When a couple hundred million Americans suddenly realize that their government has lied to them, squandered their future and is unable to meet it's basic obligations, there will be violent unrest and profound changes to our government and society. So, the news media has a choice. They can continue to lie and prevent the public from getting the facts needed to make informed decisions about our elected leadership; or they can tell the truth and let us elect people who will address these issues.
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