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My idea to save Social Security

In response to the July 26 Chicago Tribune opinion in The Bee titled “We need to figure out how to rescue Social Security”: Provide entitlements only to those that have paid into the system. The politicians have made the Social Security system just another welfare program of free giveaways.

Jerry Fountain, Coalinga

This story was originally published July 30, 2016 at 4:59 PM with the headline "My idea to save Social Security."

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