Here is another article from Tom Margenau. These are the opening paragraphs and you can read the rest here.

I sure am glad President Trump isn’t considering me to be the new head of the Social Security Administration. What a thankless job! As about 10,000 people retire every day, and as thousands more file for disability and survivor benefits, the agency’s workforce keeps dwindling. And it’s going to get worse.

Trump considers it his mandate to shrink the size of government. Of course, almost every Republican legislator thinks the same. And since they are now running the country, the federal government, including SSA, is going to shrink.

I’ve made this following point many times in this column. So many Americans claim they want smaller government. But if my emails are any indication, what they really mean is they want smaller government for everyone else — but not for themselves.

Here is an excerpt from an email I got yesterday. “I cannot believe that Obama changed a law that would deny me the right to claim Social Security benefits off of my wife’s account while letting my own retirement continue to grow. I just hope Trump corrects this travesty while he’s also kicking all those deadbeats off of the disability, welfare and food stamp rolls!” See what I mean? “More for me, but less for all those other people” is the mantra for so many Americans.

President Obama didn’t change a law. But his administration did appropriately close a loophole that allowed mostly wealthy senior citizens to claim dependent spousal benefits on their husband’s or wife’s Social Security record while they delayed taking their own benefits until age 70, at which point they would get a 32 percent bonus added to their retirement checks.