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  • First Social Security recipient put in $24.75 - got back $22,888 (Limbaugh sides with the left?)

    02/04/2005 7:47:20 PM PST · by Libloather · 52 replies · 2,114+ views
    Rush Limbaugh .com ^ | 2/04/05 | The Maha
    Now, I got one more thing on this Social Security business. Apparently some people misunderstood what I said when recently discussing the program. I never said that the first recipients didn't get any benefits. What I said was the first recipients didn't pay into the system or very much. The first recipients of Social Security were pretty much near retirement age or were at retirement age when FDR introduced the program. They were the real, true beneficiaries of this program. That's when it took 16 workers to pay the taxes for those people that had not put anything in the...