I think that it is fairly clear by the way that Barack Obama has stacked the “deficit reduction commission,” so as to be a “very serious person.”

The two chairs, Erskine Bowles, and Alan Simpson, have both been long time advocates of privatizing and otherwise gutting Social security.

Well, we now have an oddity in statistical reporting, because the Annual Report of the Trustees of Social Security for 2010 has not yet been released.

This is the document that gives an expiration date on the Social Security trust fund, and normally, it’s released on March 31, 3 months ago.

The Angry Bear finds this odd:

I find this odd in the extreme, particularly since Social Security is front and center in the news with the ongoing meetings of the Catfood Commission with their strong suggestions that cuts to Social Security are definitely on the table. You would think that repeated delays in the release of this key Report would at least require SOME explanation and that someone in the media might be asking questions. But no like the proverbial tree falling in the forest no one was close enough to hear the sound. If any. Well the silence is deafening. The lead press item on the Social Security website is the news that Isabella is the number one name for baby girls this year. http://www.ssa.gov/ Which I guess is fascinating news for fans of the Twilight franchise but not quite satisfying for us data driven types.

I think that this is all a part of a desire to give cover to the “Cat food commission,”^* so called because that is what seniors will eat if their proposals are adopted cover for their proposal.

I am not sure if the intent is to bury a good report, of if it is to release an alarmist report at the most opportune moment, but my money is on skulduggery.

^*In the interest of health, I would suggest that people eat dog food, and not cat food. Cats because they are one of the few true carnivores, do not need the complex carbohydrates and fats that people, and dogs do. As such, dog food is better for you than cat food because it provides carbs and essential fatty acids. A dog can go blind if it is fed on cat food, but a cat lives just fine on dog food. The pnenomenon is known as rabbit starvation.