72 million Americans receive benefits for their life-time of working and contributing to the Social Security System established 90 years ago by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As a result, Social Security payments lifted millions of American seniors out of poverty. The impact of SS continues to be significant, as reported by Molly Weston Williamson on MSNBC this week:

“In a recent survey, 42% of Americans age 65 and up reported they wouldn’t be able to afford necessities like food, clothes or housing without their monthly Social Security retirement benefits. Over 11 million disabled Americans under age 65 also receive benefits through Social Security — payments that are subject to strict rules limiting recipients’ ability to earn wages or accrue savings. For these disabled Americans, too, even a few days’ delay could mean not putting food on the table.”

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s YouTube interview with the former Director of Social Security Martin O’Malley in the Obama Administration (link below) is worth watching and sharing widely. The former Governor of Maryland O’Malley describes the damage that Trump/Musk/DOGE has already done to destroy from within the Social Security Administration.

I’ve never forgotten these words of the late Senator and Vice President Hubert Humphrey:

“The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” 

Watch this YouTube, and then call your Congressional Representatives and Senators (MAGA Republicans and Democrats) and protest the federal government’s dismantling of the Social Security system.