Right-wing ideologues are mounting a three-pronged fraud trying to delegitimize Social Security, slash its benefits, and then – zzzzzt! – kill it. First, they tried to demonize our public retirement program as a socialist horror. That hasn’t worked, since this pension literally works, allowing millions of workaday American families to escape old-age poverty. So, in Lie No. 2, they shriek: “Social Security is bankrupt – you future retirees will be left penniless in old age!” […]
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