The Truth About Social Security

It's an election year which means speeches, commercials and news banter about political issues and the candidates' respective stances.  In the interest of public relations, candidates' views on Social Security are diced into sentence fragments and sound bites which does little to address the real issue.  Compounding the problem is that few people understand how the system works and where the funds go leading to all sorts of myths, misperceptions and exaggerations.  Let's examine how the system works so you can make your own decisions about the best approach to fixing it.