Krugman: The Clean Little Secret of Social Security: It's a pretty good program, and we can afford it.

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3. Krugman understates for effect:

Social Security is more than a "pretty good" program".

It is the genius plan of FDR, who signed it into law in 1935. Since then, it has prevented countless numbers of Americans from falling into poverty and has been a security blanket for the aged.

The success of Social Security has earned the confidence of Americans. Now, the Trump administration is not only trying to break down that confidence by lying to the American people, but trying to destroy the agency itself.