Each of you on this forum is here for a reason.  Social Security is a valuable asset funded by all the people....shared in by all the people.....generally in accordance to what you have put in, but with allowances made for those who COULD not contribute for good and sufficient reason.   Those who support Social Security as a concept are here to keep it. 

Those who take the position 'everyone for themself'.  That government of the people should not address misfortune, disavantage and hardship.....or help people help themselves would do away with Social Security as a concept.  I consider their position to be self-serving, disengenuous and contrary to the right of the people to establish government to serve their interests.  Self-serving because it serves their immediate interests and gratification at the expense of others.  Disengenuous because they inevitably come to the government they revile to be 'bailed out'.

Charity will never adequately deal with misfortune, disadvantage and hardship.....NOR SHOULD IT.  We, as members of society, have no right to expect altruists to deal with what we ourselves will not...and at their expense.  Society exists to take care of its own.  All must help....not just the willing. 

Social Security was established to be a program assuring dignity and a certain measure of independence to citizens when they were no longer fully self reliant.  All must participate in order for all to benefit. 

I know I restate the obvious to many of you, BUT........  IF the current Radical Right Republican philosophy in vogue achieves control in both houses of Congress, only the President's veto prevents loss of Social Security, the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid......and innumerable beneficial other programs only government can and should do.  Should the RRR gain control over the office of the President, that curb on their excesses is gone.  And so is what our children and children's children have a right to expect us to do.  Be responsible....really responsible.

Think about this and vote with reason and rationality this coming November.