{"id":4853,"date":"2026-03-12T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/social-security-was-a-democrat-scam-republicans-will-be-blamed-for-fixing-black-blonde-media\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:02:22","slug":"social-security-was-a-democrat-scam-republicans-will-be-blamed-for-fixing-black-blonde-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/social-security-was-a-democrat-scam-republicans-will-be-blamed-for-fixing-black-blonde-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Was A Democrat Scam Republicans Will Be Blamed For Fixing \u2013 Black &#038; Blonde Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackandblondemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rogan-Musk-sharpen-face.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>During a recent appearance on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sSOxPJD-VNo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Rogan podcast<\/a>, Elon Musk said, \u201cSocial Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the predictable, sanctimonious political pearl-clutching, turns out the man was technically correct.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say I created a pension fund company. You paid into it and when you reach the age of 85, you\u2019d get a monthly check. However the mortality rate in the United States today is 79 years old. People would look at that and call it a scam, and it would be an understandable way of looking at it. If enough people complained, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if state and federal law enforcement showed up at my door with a warrant and shiny handcuffs. Thank God we\u2019re not living during the tar-and-feather, torch-and-pitchfork era.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out that\u2019s exactly what President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 74th Democrat-controlled Congress did in 1935.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackandblondemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FDR-SS-Act-sharpen-face.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-27420\" title=\"President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Democrats, signs the Social Security Act of 1935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackandblondemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FDR-SS-Act-sharpen-face.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"118\"\/><\/a>The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. In addition to several provisions for general welfare, the new Act created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u2014<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/history\/briefhistory3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Security Dot Gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now while this was portrayed as altruistic and a great benefit at the time, it appears Social Security was a slush fund created by Democrats to forcibly extract money from the American people; money that would not be repaid as promised in most circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>In 1934, the American mortaility rate was 61 years old and the new Social Security payout was at age 65. FDR and the Democrats who passed the Act knew a good amount of Americans would never be around to take advantage of the program they paid into.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackandblondemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Untitled-1-copy-sharpen-face.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-27446\" title=\"FDR\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackandblondemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Untitled-1-copy-sharpen-face.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\"\/><\/a>Unethical, heartless, evil; call it what you want.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the advances in modern medicine, people are now living to the age of 79 years old while the Social Security payout age is 65. Even a college grad today can figure out why the math is horribly off and why the program is doomed, UNLESS the eligility age is raised.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sad this whole Social Security mess isn\u2019t communicated as simply as it is.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, we all know why it\u2019s been reduced to partisan scare tactics because the truth would be inconvenient.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, Elon Musk said, \u201cSocial Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.\u201d Despite the predictable, sanctimonious political pearl-clutching, turns out the man was technically correct. Let\u2019s say I created a pension fund company. You paid into it and when you reach the age of 85, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conservative-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}