Originally Posted by Willravel

Characterizing Social Security as theft is dishonest. It is certainly redistribution, but it's the cost of living in a society that cannot in good conscience allow horrible situations like the elderly starvation rates recorded before the implementation of the New Deal to continue. Like it or not, we humans are not islands; we live in a society where the consequences of our behaviors are visited on others. Just as we have established laws of conduct in order to make official the social contract, we have economic and governmental laws in order to maintain a measure of peace and equality that would not and could not be maintained in an anarchistic society. It's about sharing the responsibility for living in a society that you benefit and that benefits you.

Bearing this in mind, it's time to ensure that the government cannot remove money from Social Security in order to pay for other debts. We must be sure that Social Security remains intact so that we don't return to what I see as a very dark and uncertain period in our country's history.