One of the more disturbing trends to be observed in the US media is the way that news, especially news regarding the Bush administration, is "unreported". The below article on a change to Social Security for instance never bothers to actually explain what the proposed change is. The reader is left to guess what calculating SS benefits on "inflation" instead of wages would mean. My own guess is that it would mean the government gives you whatever amount it believes a generic retiree needs based on some inflation based formula regardless of how much you may have paid in. So those who have paid the most get shafted the most. But this is only my guess. The non-news piece below doesn't actually bother to say.

White House ponders changing the way benefits are calculated - Jan. 4, 2005