It has S.S. has been used as a vote buying slush fund, under the propaganda as an “earned right”, “trust fund”, et al. During election time it becomes a propaganda tool for the politicians in “G-d’s Waiting Room”, aka Florida, and many of the residents are as ignorant about this as the low info voters who blindly follow the demorats.
Low information voters know who is promising to keep the checks coming. When 47% of the electorate are freeloaders, democracy must fail.