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The Social Security program was established in 1935 to provide retirement income to certain workers. The program was later expanded to cover most of the workforce. Prior to the program's development, individuals were completely responsible for funding their personal needs both during their working years and during retirement. If an individual failed to save and invest, that individual could not retire from the workforce. Like any large, complex government program, there are many components to Social Security. Ten common questions about the program are addressed below. More at Yahoo Finance..Investopedia.com

It seems to me that Max put the interests of unions before the interest of national security. If you recall, Max constantly vetoed amendments of Bush's Homeland security bill because Bush wanted the option of firing incompetent government (read..union) workers. Gary Aldrich's latest column addresses this govt. worker incompetentcy. Georgia voters looked past Max's war record and saw that the man had his priorities all screwed up.