Synopsis
Tour of the new Social Security offices in Woodlawn, Md. and orientation for taxpayers.
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- Running time
- 13 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · The most modern equipment · Steve Nordby · 2003-11-12
Nancy takes gramps along on her assignment to do a story on the Social Security headquarters. We get to see the high tech equipment and efficient and courteous clerks that typify government bureaucracies. If you discount the humor in that, it's a pretty straightforward and boring governemt film.
★★★ · Explaining Social Security · Dodsworth the Cat · 2025-11-23
Norman Rose narrates this well-produced short explaining the U.S. Social Security System. I'll bet they don't use those card catalogues any more, nor that electronic system. Two scheduled tours of the building every day?? How many people would show up for such a thing? The acting's pretty good, though bureaucrat Miss Hall is excessively perky. The music selection is contemporary for the early '60s.
★ · Slick Ponzi Scheme · Ron Raygun · 2010-03-03
A typical slick film produced at taxpayer expense promoting the giant government job creating SOCIALIST bureaucracy and agenda of the Economic Security Act of 1935. Look how the old geezer feels when he is handed a guvmint check! Another MANDATE like the proposed Obummacare, that may look good to a dummy in the short term, but fail as a pyramid scheme down the road. Nothing mentioned in this film about an individual's choice, because there is NONE. Nothing mentioned about being a "SLAVE" of the goozy GUVMINT for the 12.4% of withholding! A brilliant DemocRAT scheme of the '30's that is…