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Facebook Rant About Social Security Is All Lies

This Social Security lie has been circulating for half a century but this version of it on Facebook needs to be cleared up.
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Facebook Rant About Social Security Is All Lies
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Tom Margenau
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There are so many Social Security-bashing screeds floating around on the internet that I could spend every one of my weekly columns just trying to set the record straight.

These things usually get passed around from one gullible and naive nitwit to the next. Today I’m addressing one that has been polluting the online world for almost a quarter century now. I wrote my first column about it in 1997, and it’s still around spreading falsehoods. The only difference is the latest version that many readers have been asking me about is showing up on Facebook.

Tom Margenau
Tom Margenau
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Tom Margenau worked for 32 years in a variety of positions for the Social Security Administration before retiring in 2005. He has served as the director of SSA’s public information office, the chief editor of more than 100 SSA publications, a deputy press officer and spokesman, and a speechwriter for the commissioner of Social Security. For 12 years, he also wrote Social Security columns for local newspapers, and recently published the book “Social Security: Simple and Smart.” If you have a Social Security question, contact him at [email protected]