Gee whiz, taking care of your own elderly will do that to you if Grandma gets Social Security after working 50 years at a Holland Milling Machine and breaking her back to put you through graduate school.
Right?
That hardly turns your family into welfare recipients.
Avoid propaganda in this discussion of who is or is not part of the dependent class (which, to me, are mostly elected politicians ~ they are totally dependent).
Honesty at some point means pointing out that Social Security is indeed a welfare benefit. Those dollars were not invested in our own account that we then draw from like an IRA. Most people draw out far more than they put in. It’s a ponzi scheme & the worst kind of social welfare. It can’t be sustained & the only way to make it work is to start means testing current recipients & looking at setting up a new system for younger people.
I hope Romney & the future Republican House & Senate have the intestinal fortitude to make the right decision & fix this system.