ABSTRACT
The Helvering v. Davis decision cleared the way for a massive campaign to fatefully shape public consciousness about Social Security. Social Security's Bureau of Federal Old-Age Benefits was retitled Bureau of Old-Age Insurance. Social Security circulars and other documents were rewritten to insert insurance language. To summarize the administration's efforts thus far in presenting and promoting Social Security: Social Security was introduced in Congress as old-age insurance, a unified system whose contributions were intended to build up "contractual annuities" and a fund for paying those "annuities" to beneficiaries "as a matter of contractual right," though the bill contained no contract language; but to improve the bill's chances of surviving a constitutional challenge before the Supreme Court, it was then meticulously rewritten and scrubbed of insurance language. The Social Security Trust Fund, then, is bogus. Here, again, is a very significant, explicit effort at promoting a false consciousness.
