• jacksilver@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Social security is a very different case, it’s designed to be a safety net, even in its inception. There is no claim or language that indicates it’s anything else.

    Police however are prompted up by things like “protect and serve” and a lot of other language/guidance/media to be portrayed as protectors, when that’s not necessarily the case.

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      3 days ago

      There is no claim or language that indicates it’s anything else.

      Agreed, the SSA itself is not making claims that mislead the public.

      Police however are prompted up by things like “protect and serve”

      I agree that’s a problem.

      a lot of other language/guidance/media to be portrayed as protectors, when that’s not necessarily the case.

      I don’t want to beat the dead horse, but IMO the public language/guidance/media discourse regarding the SSA is as misleading as “to protect and to serve”.

      If I were pushed I might say that the security part of social security is an implied guarantee that it will provide security of some kind. It does bolster financial security for many at the moment, but there is no guarantee it will do in the future.