Commentary: An easy fix for Social Security

Eighty-four years ago Wednesday, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Social Security into law. He advised future generations to continue building on the program's foundation, which he explained "represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete."

Recognizing Social Security's importance to the economic security of working families, policymakers followed FDR's direction and expanded it regularly - until 1972. In the years since, politicians have increasingly seen government, to quote Ronald Reagan, not as "the solution