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Social Security and Its Enemies: The Case for America's Most Efficient Insurance Program
Social Security and Its Enemies The Case for America's Most Efficient Insurance Program Author:Max J. Skidmore, Max Skidmore Vigorously argues that, despite its enemies, Social Security has remained and can continue to remain a remarkably successful program Most Americans would be astonished to discover that the most efficient insurance program in the world-in the history of the world, in fact-is the United States Social Security system. Yet Americans have been told ... more »that Social Security is going bankrupt, that all of its funds will be exhausted in a matter of years. In a Nation as Rich as Ours: Why Social Security Works and Why Its Enemies Are Wrong explains why these widely held beliefs are mistaken, and how it is that much of the public has come to accept them. In a book remarkably free of technical or social science jargon, Max Skidmore demonstrates exactly why Social Security is in no danger of going bankrupt, and proposes a series of incremental adjustments that will allow the system to support future generations even better. In a Nation as Rich as Ours shows that, far from being a system on the verge of collapse, Social Security in fact does exactly what it was created to do: keep America's aged (and later her infirm, disabled, or orphaned) out of poverty without prejudice and with universal access.« less