[NorthMountain]

However, most people bought into them in good faith and paid a good chunk of their earnings towards them.

1) We didn't buy into socialist insecurity and the rest of that lot. Money was taken from our paychecks, at gunpoint and without our consent.

2) No good faith was involved. The government has lied about the nature of socialist insecurity and similar programs from the beginning, when Congress first considered them.

3) Yes, a big chunk of our earnings was taken at gunpoint to support these programs, and it has all been spent.

[Lorianne]

A lot of people did “buy in” to the plan.
They thought it would work.
They though it was a good idea.

What I am saying is that people didn’t get onboard with the express intention of fleecing future generations (as the author of the article seems think).

Yes, many people didn’t like it from the get go. But even among those that did, I don’t think they had evil intentions. They were just wrong. The author’s generation is going to have done wrong things too.