The return on my social security is that my mother has continued to be able to live modestly, but independently, well into her 80s, long past the death of my father, and that I don't have to step over other indigent elders on my way to dinner and a movie. That's sufficient return for me.
"...we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age."
FDR from: Presidential Statement Signing the Social Security Act, August 14, 1935, Social Security Online - HISTORY
"...we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age."
FDR from: Presidential Statement Signing the Social Security Act, August 14, 1935, Social Security Online - HISTORY