About Social Security and a trip down memory lane.

Let's start telling this truth to people rather than blaming the public forty years of Republican lying and scheming. This idps how it began and the latest notch in their belt is the Trump tax fraud. People need to hear this story. There will be more to come.

BTW, anyone else remember paying in double do our parents wouldn't live in poverty and have medical care? While we were trying to raise young families? Over the past forty years, the working class has stood in the path of an oncoming train loaded with all the crap big business and big money could find. And, on the cow catcher they put the flashing sign promising wealth if you played the state lotteries .

https://www.fedsmith.com/2013/10/11/ronald-reagan-and-the-great-social-security-heist/


Ronald Reagan and The Great Social Security Heist
Allen W. Smith, Ph.D.

Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular presidents in modern history. As a former Hollywood actor, he had an uncommon degree of charisma.

The conservatives absolutely loved Reagan for his efforts to reduce the size of government, but most liberals hated him with a passion. Reagan is still revered by a lot of Americans. This reverence for Ronald Reagan helps to explain how he was able to fool most of the American people to a degree unparalleled by any other modern president.

With the help of Alan Greenspan, Reagan pulled off one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated against the American people.

It is so ironic that many people, today, still believe that Ronald Reagan came galloping up on a great white horse to sound the alarm that Social Security was in deep financial trouble. He then allegedly figured out a solution to the problem and rammed his legislative proposal through Congress in a three-month period....