Congress never lifted a finger on Social Security.
Congress never lifted a finger on Social Security.
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Because the Congress does not want to give up one iota of control over YOUR MONEY. The socialist mindset is that YOUR money is really theirs, because money in the hands of "the people" is power invested in the people which should only belong to the "state" in the socialist mind.
The failure of SS is squarely on the shoulders of the malfeasant, self-serving pols of Washington who have raped and ruined the SS system all for the buying of political power. And all with your money, of course.
When will the taxpayer finally say "ENOUGH"?
Oh, they lifted one finger towards us - the same one that FDR lifted towards the people when he started this mess many years ago. As Hitlery puts it, "We're going to take things from you for the common good". And that's all that SS has been - a redistribution program disguised as a pension plan.