The Left and Right Can Agree That NPR Completely Misled Listeners About the Supercommittee and the Deficit

NPR badly needs donations of paper bags, because a lot of people there need to be wearing them over their heads after this piece. The piece ostensibly tells listeners that both left and right agree that things can't keep going as they are going and that the problem is Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

This is hugely wrong. First, the budget deficit first became large when the economy plunged because of the collapse of the housing bubble. The deficit in 2007 was just 1.2 percent of GDP ...