Either President Obama's hiding something or he's trying to scare Congress into submission. Last week he threatened to hold senior citizens' Social Security checks hostage if Congress didn't resolve the debt ceiling crisis. He claimed that "there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it." According to NCPA Senior Fellow Thomas Saving in a Wall Street Journal editorial last Friday, that's a lie. The system is set up so there's plenty of money-unless Obama has other plans for it beside the retired people who depend on their monthly checks to pay rent and utilities.
So why the strong rhetoric? Saving called the president out for using these deceitful scare tactics to strong-arm Congress into giving him the debt ceiling increase he wants.