[apoliticalone]

Bingo.....the program was meant to fund a retirement insurance using a wage and employment tax using a long time revenue stream from USA workers and employers. The money was intended to be held in a lockbox.

Then it was expanded and used to help out short term immigrants, illegal and otherwise, people that can’t speak English, or other minor and often self destructive behavior, wars, bailouts for Wall St, and every other thing that the country and general fund spends money on. When the Social Security cash flow was opened to all manner of govt spending it corrupted the intent and the funding.

I don’t think it is right to means test Social Security retirement while other railroad and government retirements are often double and triple dipped and lose nothing.

[oh8eleven]

The money was intended to be held in a lockbox.
IIRC, it was LBJ who unlocked it. Just another disaster from the man who gave us Medicare, Medicaid, Vietnam, Great Society, etc., etc., etc.
And the looney left still thinks Nixon was a bad president.

[cherry]

some of these govt workers triple dip and yet its the people relying on SS benefits for a guarantee income that need to be cut down to size.....