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But most of all, the idea that the working class has some independent protection in their old age against infirmity or catastrophe, and some income they can count on in their old age, makes them that much less dependent on washing someone else's car, shining someone else's shoes, or polishing someone else's balls, until they croak.

Independent? Relying on a government check is more "independent" than owning my own retirement?

Social Security doesn't make the elderly "less dependent." They still have to polish balls--the balls of the politicians who hold their benefits ransom every time an election rolls around.

The real political function of Social Security and Medicare is enslaving the most reliable voting demographic in America to the State. You can see why the idea of putting every citizen on Medicare gives certain politicians a hard on you could cut glass with.

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