Claim: President Barack Obama rewrote the history of the Social Security system during a Dec. 7 press conference, claiming that only widows and orphans originally benefited from the program. Obama was defending a deal the administration reached recently with congressional Republicans to extend the Bush tax cuts for all Americans for another two years: Obama, Dec. 7: And that means because it's a big, diverse country and people have a lot of complicated positions, it means that in order to get stuff done,
Fact-check: Obama's Social Security Stumble - FactCheck.org
Verdict: president barack obama rewrote the history of the social security system during a dec. 7 press conference, claiming that only widows and orphans originally benefited from the program. obama was defending a deal the administration reached recently with congressional republicans to extend the bush tax cuts for all americans for another two years: obama, dec. 7: and that means because it's a big, diverse country and people have a lot of complicated positions, it means that in order to get stuff done,
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: D'Angelo Gore
Date published: 2010-12-08T22:22:55