I didn’t ask for a history lesson...a simple YES would have done it. :)
Well, yes and no. You may have understood the whole picture, but some others coming through the thread wouldn’t have.
I’m not really sure why you asked, unless you had a gotsha moment in mind.
We all know it’s a government program.
Those of us who were offered nothing better over the 40+ years we worked, don’t have the choices I would like to have.
It is my hope that now that we have a crew of our own in power, they can step up and replace these programs with something our Founders would have saluted.
Get government out of it. Bring it into the private sector. End more programs so the Left can’t demagogue the issues associate with them for future votes.
Social Security, Medicare, Local Schools... get government out of them. I’m probably forgetting some things. Whatever we can get government out of, we’ll be better off.
Leftists won’t have a basis for bribing folks in these areas, to “get something” for a vote.