The Social Security administration was started in 1939 if memory serves me and was bullied through because it was entirely unconstitutional.  Period.  That said, I believe there were several additional purposes to it: dependency, marking every individual and making them apparent to the government, and vote buying.  “If you support me, I will take care of you.”  This has been placed on steroids in the past decades to the point that most of the conscious population knows we are out of money to support any of the entitlements any more.  Now the problem: how do you tell the couch potato to get back to work, especially when the government is in the way of starting or expanding businesses?  Again, government is the problem by starting an unsustainable program and then inhibiting the solution available in the private sector.

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