"Various government receipts are also put off-budget, including $314.5 [higher now] billion in Social Security tax payments, which are so treated in hopes that we citizens won't notice how our retirement contributions are being poured down the same rathole as the rest of the federal system."
--P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores
"We are for a provision that destitution should not follow unemployment by reason of old age, and to that end we have accepted Social Security as a step toward meeting the problem. However, we are against those entrusted with this program when they practice deception regarding its fiscal shortcomings, when they charge that any criticism of the program means that we want to end payments."
--Ronald Reagan
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