Fox 6 News runs Fake news story?

Just recent­ly there was a news sto­ry and an inter­view on a local fox news affil­i­ate sta­tion in Birm­ing­ham Alaba­ma..

This so called news sto­ry sug­gest­ed that the social secu­ri­ty trust fund which cur­rent­ly has 3.8 Tril­lion dol­lars in it, might need to bor­row more mon­ey by rais­ing the debt ceil­ing.

This is false and it is fake news made up news to scare the elder­ly peo­ple who are already very wor­ried about how they can afford to pay for food that has risen in cost so high that many now have to choose between expen­sive med­ica­tions or food.

This is very bad and it is com­plete­ly not true…

Looks like the news sta­tions are spread­ing fake news again. 

 A local Fox Affil­i­ate Fox News 6 in Birm­ing­ham Alaba­ma has been report­ing that social secu­ri­ty checks might not go out if the repub­li­cans do not agree to bor­row more mon­ey by rais­ing the debt lim­it. 

First let us dis­pel the obvi­ous fake news here. 

Right now there is some 3.8 Tril­lion dol­lars in the social secu­ri­ty trust fund and that fund does not need addi­tion­al mon­ey to send out the checks in June of this year. 

In fact it would take as long as 20 plus years before that fund ran out of mon­ey. 

So, why did Fox 6 news report that social secu­ri­ty might be delayed?

They state that accord­ing to a U.S. Trea­sury Depart­ment offi­cial, but not nam­ing said offi­cial, that if it can­not bor­row more mon­ey it won’t be able to pay?

So, this is not accu­rate and it is well past the point of sub­jec­tive report­ing. 

Why do this?

The peo­ple who are depend­ing on their social secu­ri­ty checks in order to buy food to eat that has con­tin­ued to go up in price they are already wor­ried about how they can afford to buy enough food to eat. 

It is hard to under­stand why they would want to spread mis­in­for­ma­tion and real­ly fake news because at no time in the past has this ever hap­pened, 

• 2018–2019 (Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump): Decem­ber 22, 2018 to Jan­u­ary 25, 2019 — 34 days
• 2018 (Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump): Jan­u­ary 20 to Jan­u­ary 23 — 3 days
• 2018 (Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump): Feb­ru­ary 9 – 1 day.
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