NO MORE SLUSH FUNDS.
NO MORE LIES.
If a company did this with their pension money, they'd be arrested.
But the thing is it was never set aside. From day one SS was just another income tax and it was paid from the Treasury the same as any other government check or bill.
NO MORE LIES.
Well yes, politicians in their speeches lied, but the actual law was there for any one to read from August 14, 1935 on. There was never any SS fund. No pension account, nothing. Just income taxes in, checks out.
People are angry because they feel duped. But they were only duped because of lack of ambition to read the law for themselves and not just take Cliff notes from politicians.
Most people preferred the lies to the truth anyway. They wanted to believe it was a pension insurance fund set aside just for them.
They didn't want to know it was a welfare check paid out in the same manner as any other government program.
Because if they could convince themselves it wasn't, they could feel like they wouldn't be taking "relief" as it was called in those days.
Then the self-deception was passed down generation to generation until now where it's so deeply ingrained people will get angry if you tell them the truth and will deny it until their dying breath.