Originally Posted by mgburg

When they first started raiding the program back during the Johnson administration...they could have left the monies in the trust account and raised the taxes for their "new-deal" programs...but they didn't want that to occur...giving equal rights to blacks and the expanding the nanny-state were the programs that needed funding...no one wanted to pay for that (as well as the escalating conflict in 'Nam), so they took the money from SS, the taxes didn't go up that much (as they should have) and nobody was the wiser...

Except Ron Paul...that's when he decided to get into politics.

And whoever is the top party in Congress is the caretaker of the SS funding...as far as I can tell, the Reps have WAY TOO FEW YEARS to call this their problem...but they are just as guilty for not solving it, or being able to stop the bleeding.

As for giving anyone credit for SS...a Ponzi scheme is a Ponzi scheme...leave FDR's carcass alone...just stop the damn program, give the people their money back and shut the mess down...it's only turning this country into a bunch of cry-baby sheep.