The truth is that the trust funds have been robbed and the national debt continues to soar. Privatization means shrinking the government sector. The 20th century has seen a global swing to socialism. Contrary to its utopian ideals, socialism impoverishes the people, despoils the environment, tramples individual rights, suppresses freedom, and fosters the evolution of totalitarian leaders such as Hitler and Stalin. In every case, socialism has collapsed in total failure.
Socialism has no redeeming qualities.
When most of the world's nations became more socialist, the U.S. followed. The U.S. trend to socialism was comparatively slow. With less socialism than other countries, the U.S. economy grew stronger and Americans become enriched. The average American has nearly ten times the wealth as most others. The desire for economic growth has motivated countries to reverse their socialist policies.