So why is there no call to reduce and eliminate welfare?
Could it be our politicians are afraid of riots?
Well, riots at the ballet box for them.
SSI, is welfare/charity.
The design is to make you poor( er ) during your working productive life, and a state dependent, mewing slave in your old age.
Very successful.
They are less afraid of elderly Americans who have worked and contributed all their lives, than of welfare leaches who have never worked.
I say FIRST abolish every single welfare program, INCLUDING the leaches who infest the government offices to administer them, BEFORE any further talk about social security.
Welfare welfare is a drop in a small bucket, whereas SS and Medicare (and Medicaid) are the overflowing barrels that need to be addressed.
Welfare reform in the 90s did away with most of the noxious programs that you are thinking of. As a result, the chronically indigent are often reliant on social security, and I ain’t talking about the old folks.