Patriotic Chickens want to expand Social Security
Education and nonpartisan presentations help inform the public
The Patriotic Chickens are dedicated to crowing the “Good News” of Social Security to the rest of the flock. Our hope is to inspire gra
Social Security, created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt more than 90 years ago, has kept more people out poverty than any other program.
It’s brilliance is partially based in its simplicity. It is social insurance. Premiums are paid by the workers themselves through a payroll tax. Lifetime benefits are paid to those workers who become disabled, families of workers who die prematurely, and workers who retire and no longer earn a wage.
Articles on this site will tell you much more about how it works, and the very-solvable problems it faces.
How the Patriotic Chickens were hatched
The legend of the Patriotic Chickens was born from a comment at a fundraiser in its founders backyard. It was billed as a “Patriotic Chicken Dinner” and one guest asked whether it was the dinner that was patriotic or the chickens.
It begin it’s life as a micro PAC to help Good Humans get elected in one tiny area. It’s mission has evolved into an educational effort to inform Americans about Social Security, Medicare/health care and the need to address our country’s fiscal problems by rebalancing the tax collections back to what it was when America’s middle and working classes were thriving.