Social Security and Medicare

Since Social Security and Medicare are taken directly from our paychecks each and every week both cannot be considered "entitlements" as both the Congress and the President claims they are. Sometime in the 1940's FDR and the Congress passed the Social Security bill and it became the law of the land. President Johnson and the Congress passed the Medicare Law and it became the law of the land. On the first, with the signature of FDR, and taxation to pay for such a program, Social Security should never be considered to be an entitlement to be used to balance the budget. Sometime in the 1960's, President Johnson and the then Congress passed the Medicare bill and it came to be the law of the land. Since they are not entitlements, but an obligation to the people, they are non-negotiable.