Social Security Administration Politicized?

[ProgressiveDepot.com]

I just requested a copy of my Social Security statement and I noticed this statement below my estimated benefits:

"Your estimated benefits are based on current law. Congress has made changes to the law in the past and can do so at any time. The law governing benefit amounts may change because, by 2042, the payroll taxes collected will be enouh to pay only about 73 percent of scheduled benefits."

Has this statement always been there (or at least for a while), or is this another way to ingrain the thought that Social Security is in trouble?

[Pounder]

1. Social Security Con Job

FDR~passed away 60 years ago today....Franklin, we could sure use you now...
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No, I don't think that particular statement has always been there...in fact, I know it hasn't.

Bushco is laying the groundwork for the gutting of Social Security...he is going to privatize it, then turn it over to his cronies to "administer" the "New Social Security"..., wherein the costs to "administer" the program will consume all of the monies in Social Security! In other words, he's handing them a one hundred billion dollar gift!

This guy & his crew are Demons...Vampyres, sucking the life out of this country! And don't fool yourself if you believe simply voting in a new administration will stop this runaway train...

We gotta take to the streets, and take this country back, people...by force, if needs be!
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prevent injustice, but there must never be a time
when we fail to protest."
- - Elie Wiesel (Nobel laureate
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Death By Design - The Plot To Destroy Social Insurance
by Maya Rockeymoore, PhD, The Black Commentator, 4/8/05

Our nation's political leaders are looting the
federal treasury and they expect ordinary
citizens not to notice. Last week's coverage of
the release of the Social Security and Medicare
Trustee's Report proves one thing about
contemporary news: Those who control the mic,
control the sound byteŠand our perception of
reality.

Despite the Trustee's report clearly showing the
more immediate financial problems facing the
Medicare program - which they projected will
become insolvent in the year 2020 - most
mainstream news sources focused on the Trustee's
less dramatic Social Security estimates which
moved up the date at which the trust fund is
expected to be "exhausted" from 2042 to 2041.

How has it come to pass that we are actually
facing a short-term crisis in Medicare but the
nation is fixated on the more distant Social
Security shortfall? More importantly, how does
this bait and switch tactic obscure the likely
impact of Medicare's financing problems on the
millions of African American elderly, disabled,
and poor people who rely on the program as their
only source of health care?...

MORE: http://www.blackcommentator.com/133/133_cover_rockeymoore.html