Theology Of Social Security

Here is an excellent article on how Social Security came to be.  Many of you may not know what role the Christian church played in getting the public to accept the imposition of a payroll tax to keep it solvent.
Tell me if this doesn't still sound familiar today - Throughout the process, appeals were made to American businesses and workers by church leaders to love their neighbors as themselves and to work to bring about an end to the social injustice of not caring for the aged and infirm.  The only difference is that it is not the church spewing this crap anymore.......it is the Liberals!


J Rueben Clark, a member of the Mormon Church, hit the nail on the head back when the government entitlement programs were being debated.

“Some plan must be devised that shall make certain that no aged person shall
be cold or go hungry or unclad. But the prime responsibility for
supporting an aged parent rests upon his family, not upon society. Ours
is not a socialistic or communistic state, where the people are mere
vassals to be driven about as animals from one corral to another. We are
freemen. So still with us the family has its place and its
responsibilities and duties, which are God-given. The family which
refuses to keep its own is not meeting its duties. When an aged parent
has no family or when the family is itself without means, then society
must, as a matter of merest humanity, come to the rescue. This is
perfectly clear."
“But it is a far cry from this wise principle to saying that every person
reaching a fixed age shall thereafter be kept by the state in idleness.
Society owes to no man a life of idleness, no matter what his age. I
have never seen one line in Holy Writ that calls for, or even sanctions
this. In the past no free society has been able to support great groups
in idleness and live free.” (CR, Apr. 1938, pp. 106–7.)