Comments on: Bush’s Secret Plan to Kill Social Security http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/bushs_secret_plan_to_kill_social_security/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:15:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jem http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/bushs_secret_plan_to_kill_social_security/comment-page-1/#comment-44829 Jem Wed, 04 May 2005 17:56:06 +0000 /?p=10391#comment-44829 For a lot of folks, Social Security is already a program where they get much less from it than they put in. And not all of those folks are rich--in fact, many of them (as has been argued previously) are hard-working poor who are more likely to die before they draw substantial benefits. Social Security has never been anything other than welfare--it's just been pitched dishonestly (and successfully so) by its proponents. It was cleverly packaged to provide benefits even to those with no need for it in order to provide an incentive for its continued existence. For a lot of folks, Social Security is already a program where they get much less from it than they put in. And not all of those folks are rich--in fact, many of them (as has been argued previously) are hard-working poor who are more likely to die before they draw substantial benefits.

Social Security has never been anything other than welfare--it's just been pitched dishonestly (and successfully so) by its proponents. It was cleverly packaged to provide benefits even to those with no need for it in order to provide an incentive for its continued existence.

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