Since it is clearly one of his more partisan political attacks, Joseph Reisert’s recent column (“Economic security, as Obama sees it, means bigger government,” April 6) deserves a response.
Apparently, being willing to work hard is not enough if one wishes to characterize as evil all social programs, including Social Security.
To compare federal government expenditures for one year against a 60-year average is playing fast and loose with statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli had some thing to say about that: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
In Reisert’s world, “empowered” individuals would have no problem coping with the entrenched and powerful corporate interests that dominate so much of our lives. Hardly.
Bob Dodge
Augusta
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