Social Security

When Roscoe Bartlett was in elementary school, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the Old Age Pension Act, also known as the Social Security Act of 1935. Since that time, the program has expanded and changed more times than we would care to enumerate here. It seems that every four years Social Security gets kicked around some more. Cut this, expand that, privatize this, end that. Still, it remains an enduring institution.

Today over 55 Million people receive Social Security benefits. It is probably worth noting that Roscoe Bartlett has been eligible to receive Social Security retirement benefits for nearly 30 years. If he would just retire.

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