Trust Fund Falsehoods. The message claims that FDR promised Social Security funds would be used "for no other government program," but that Lyndon Johnson and a Democratic Congress later took Social Security into the General Fund "so that Congress could spend it." This is twisted history. The government has always been able to use Social Security funds for other purposes when not needed to finance benefits. As DeWitt states: "[T]here has never been any change in the way the Social Security program is financed or the way that Social Security payroll taxes are used by the federal government." All LBJ did in 1968 was to make Social Security taxes and spending part of a "unified budget." As DeWitt notes, this was an accounting issue and "has no affect on the actual operations of the [Social Security] Trust Fund itself

The above was from Wikipedia, and not from me.

I think might want to reconsider what you know about social security. For starters, it is a social security tax. Tax. The money that we paid into it on an annual basis went to pay for people that collected social security that year. If they ended social security today, we wouldn't get a dime of our money back. I don't enjoy being the bearer of bad tidings. Not to worry, it is not going to happen in our lifetime.

Social security is a socialist program just like the others in the pros of socialism. Current working tax payers are funding the social security benefits that we are receiving today.

The whole intent of the person that initiated this thread was to bash the Democrats. If that wasn't his/her intent, it sure appeared that way. If you look at the threads that receive the most responses, they are ones that bash either one party, or the other from the get go Given your constant use of capitalization, bold letters, it is gives the impression that you don't want to have a conversation with people that don't agree with you. You want to shout them down.

I am not blind to what's happening on this forum. The last thing that I want to do is get into someone's brain. There is no call for name calling, or tagging people with something that they are not.