[Blurb2350]

How 'bout this: "Roosevelt later explained how the payroll taxes would help ensure Social Security’s long-term viability. 'Those taxes were never a matter of economics,' he said, according to [Jean Edward] Smith’s biography ["FDR," Random House, 2007]. 'They are politics all the way through. We put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my Social Security program.' " (I added the boldface. This block of text came from this substack post.

[cgbg]

I call Social Security a Ponzi scheme with guns.

The fancy political theory talk is just putting earrings on that pig.

[Nateman]

Thanks for that. I came across that same quote while I was looking. It sure implies he made a monster that would live forever and was damn proud of doing it.