Misinformation about Social Security
Victor at The Dead Parrot Society provides some interesting evidence that many people don’t understand how social security works, including those who are conducting polls on public understanding of how social security works.
Having worked for a survey data collection company in the past, I can testify that polling organizations often do not have a very good understanding of the material they are constructing polls about, and that spin is often much more important than substance to them.
Many people view SS as a retirement fund,when it is not anywhere near that.
I think that if everyone understood SS (which all the people watching news do) the system would change.