Social security and its enemies
Subtitle: the case for America's most efficient insurance program
By: Max J. Skidmore
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780813336633
Subjects: Sozialversicherung; Social security; Soziale Sicherheit
Description: In a book remarkably free of technical or social science jargon, Max J. Skidmore demonstrates exactly why Social Security is not in danger of going bankrupt and proposes a series of incremental adjustments that will allow the system to support future generations even better.

Social Security and Its Enemies 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 disabled, orphaned, and many of her infirm) out of poverty without prejudice and with universal access.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Myth versus reality in social security: it ain't what people don't know; title: The gospel of wealth amid acres of diamonds; title: FDR's plan and its enemies emerge; title: From Mrs. Fuller's first check; title: Frightening facts? or persistent politics?; title: The enemies regroup: rallying 'round Reagan; title: Presidential attitudes toward social security: only desperate men with their backs to the wall; title: The special problem of health care: the fortunes to be made; title: Some final words.