Social Security In America

Social Security was first introduced to the American public on January 17th, 1935 by President Franklin Roosevelt. America was one of the very few industrialized nations in the world that had not cobbled together some sort of pension system for elderly citizens. The Great Depression brought the harshest of realities for elderly people, who lost their homes, savings, and lives. Not only would the elderly be benefitted by a pension system, but so would unemployed members of society. An unemployment insurance for workers who had lost their jobs would step in to cushion the blow dealt to them. However, many Americans still lived with the Red Scare in their minds, believing this system to be one of many inevitable steps the federal government was …show more content…
From the elderly to the unemployed, from the physically handicapped adult to dependent, crippled children, from maternal and child welfare to the whole of public health. The span under which it exercises its relevance could easily be found statistically significant by a simple random sample of the American people. Not only is it helpful, it’s reliable. Citizens don’t even need to think of it and it prepares them for retired life or unforeseen emergency. If this were stricken from America, people would be left to fend for themselves once more and there would be one less system in place to slow any one person’s collapse into poverty. Many might view Social Security as an employment of communist ideology by the federal government, but they fail to realize the difference between domineering control and reasonable socialism. People need helping sometimes. In a nation that runs on capitalism as ours does, we tend to forget about anyone who is not ourselves. People suffer on sidewalks and we kick up dust over their meek signs pleading for a little change, a little assistance. Social Security is a form of assistance that we have no right to take from those of us who desperately need