re: Social Security - Help me understand better

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Yeah, people in this country can't be trusted to save because we've trained them not to. This is the exact same thing the libs do with school lunches; look at the growing numbers and assume those children will all starve to death without the lunch program.

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WHo taught Americans not to save for retirement before social security?? They did not then either. Someone must have taught them, no? The funny thing about Social Security is that the first generation of Americans who were born prior to its existence and watched those around them age, become disabled and orphaned and how they suffered for their ill behavior to become old, disabled or orphaned were ADAMANT in their support for social security as has every generation of American's yet EXCEPT for a small % of baby boomers who thought flower power was a good idea in the 1970s and Supply Side economics was a good idea in the 1980s. Those idiots started the villification of a program which was and is a booming success in its core mission and is nothing more than a promise from the able bodied and adult to the feeble and the child with no means that they will be taken care of with some modest income and dignity. Those same idiots are now staunch supporters of THEIR social security but the raised a bunch of mal-adjusted kids who carry on their idiocy and hateful ways. It is a shame that so many people have been deluded into thinking that because they have a 401K they belong to the investor class...