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The original intent of Social Security was not a gift to the elderly, nor a reward for hard work. It was a practical way to encourage older workers to retire to generate more advancement opportunity for the young. Social Security is a solid, beneficial program that has been maligned by people who will risk the strength of our country for personal gain. Robbing the Social Security Trust Fund, a resource for every American, in the greedy hope of making money for some lucky people (and ignoring the real risk involved to the whole program) is immoral.

From Frameshop...

FDR Said it Best
Who better to explain what Social Security is really about than FDR? The following is a quote from FDR's 1935 Fireside Speech taken from a wonderful resource of FDR speeches at The Miller Center for Public Affairs in Charlottesville, Virginia. Notice how FDR talks about the purpose. .....

[FDR, Fireside Chat, April 28, 1935]
The objective of the Nation has greatly changed in three years. Before that time individual self-interest and group selfishness were paramount in public thinking. The general good was at a discount.

Three years of hard thinking have changed the picture. More and more people, because of clearer thinking and a better understanding, are considering the whole rather than a mere part relating to one section or to one crop, or to one industry, or to an individual private occupation. That is a tremendous gain for the principles of democracy. The overwhelming majority of people in this country know how to sift the wheat from the chaff in what they hear and what they read. They know that the process of the constructive rebuilding of America cannot be done in a day or a year, but that it is being done in spite of the few who seek to confuse them and to profit by their confusion. Americans as a whole are feeling a lot better -- a lot more cheerful than for many, many years...

The program for social security now pending before the Congress is a necessary part of the future unemployment policy of the government. While our present and projected expenditures for work relief are wholly within the reasonable limits of our national credit resources, it is obvious that we cannot continue to create governmental deficits for that purpose year after year. We must begin now to make provision for the future. That is why our social security program is an important part of the complete picture. It proposes, by means of old age pensions, to help those who have reached the age of retirement to give up their jobs and thus give to the younger generation greater opportunities for work and to give to all a feeling of security as they look toward old age.
posted by Unknown at 9:41 PM