'Shirley', you can't be THAT stupid!!
Social Security benefits are the taxpayers' monies, paid during a lifetime of employment so that you can have a little something set aside for retirement years.
Conflating Socialism with receiving SS benefits is intellectually (and I being generous with you) dishonest.
I was waiting to see if anyone was going to mention the fact that as originally 'sold' to the people, SoSec was their own money - paid back what they paid into it with interest as a guaranteed pension of sorts. Not Socialism at all.
But then.... Socialism came in by the hand of Government when Congress decided to take the revenue designated for the "SS trust fund" and reapportioned it into the general fund - essentially taking the money of the producers and redistributing it to whatever it was the government wanted to spend it on.
Call it Thievery. Grand Theft. Ponzi Scheme.
What was sold to the people was not Socialism, because it was supposed to be their own money held in trust, paid back.
But of course with every little thing the government touches - it steals and redistributes, which is of course the operative form of Socialism.
And that "trust fund" is broke. Empty.
So we now write IOU's that they dump into the same "fund" to the tune of trillions and soon the revenue stream from what is currently employed will not be enough to pay out to retirees as promised.
THAT will be fun, watching the consequences of Socialism play out.