Reply #102: Social Security is not AND HAS NEVER BEEN A WELFARE PROGRAM

[Progressive dog]

Social security was begun for not 1 but 2 principal reasons.
First to allow the aged to retire with a small amount to live on.
Second to free up jobs for those who had none.

There was a surplus of labor (or according to the Hooverites and their fellow travellers, there were a lot of lazy people).
There are no different understandings of SS, there are only people who would ignore what SS became and has remained for most of it's history until the neo-Hooverites
again took control of the government. If one holds a view iws completely divorced from the facts, this is not an understanding. Since I am trying to be polite, I'll bite my tongue and call it a misunderstanding.