"We put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment be

"We put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program" -- Roosevelt Plenty of people want the program gone. Nobody's going to say it in public if they want to get elected, though.