I read your article on Social Security and passed it on to some Friends. One Liberal Friend responded with the with the following below. Please help with a response back to them, I need to verify the information DEMS and Social Security. Where did you get your information? Is it correct? Where can I find the answers I need to respond to this Email blaming the GOP for all of the problems with Social Security that they listed below? Please send you response to my Email at pfmorse558@comcast.net.
Email from liberal Friend on Dems and Social Security follows:
Please check information before sending it on .
I go to www.snopes.com to check these things out.
That one about the democrats and Social security was false.
1. LBJ and the Demos did not put SS in the general fund. Demos did not put taxes on SS, that was Republican Ronald Reagan.
2. Demos did increase SS taxes.
3. Republican Richard Nixon gave SS to Immigrants.
4. Democrat Bill Clinton signed legislation barring immigrants from receiving SS.