“There is no tragedy in growing old, but there is tragedy in growing old without means of support,” President Franklin Roosevelt said when touting his Social Security program to the National Conference on Economic Security in 1934. “Organizations promoting fantastic schemes have aroused hopes which cannot possibly be fulfilled.”

One could say the same about Social Security today.

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