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Policy

Saving Social Security, Episode Four: Broken Trust

Reason Staff | 10.24.2008 3:00 PM

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Worried about the viability of Social Security? Unless you're already collecting it, you should be!

Follow the animated adventures of Sonny, exactly the sort of youth who is set to get screwed by a system designed during The Great Depression, when workers were plenty and retirees rare.

Episode Four of the series is titled "Broken Trust" and explains the rickety logic behind Social Security.

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Episode One: Pimp My Walker

Episode Two: Boom Baby Boom!

Episode Three: Policy Warrior

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