It’s Chris Matthews, one of Rick Perry’s biggest critics and supporters of FDR’s New Deal policies.

And he’s correct.

As Matthews notes, Social Security was established at a time when someone who was 65 was lucky to live to that age and certainly couldn’t be expected to work. That’s no longer the case. Now being 65 is an expected part of life and most people will know what it’s like to collect a government check.

Actually, to stroll into fantasy land, Toby Ziegler on The West Wing addressed this at one point, too. Like Matthews, he noted that when the program was established you weren’t expected to be around another 20 or 30 years, collecting checks from the federal government. That wasn’t the program’s purpose.

As it is now, people check to make sure their Social Security check cashed before they climb a mountain or start a vacation. Which, you know, is fine for current generations that were (wrongly) promised as much. But future generations have to understand that we can’t finance the last 20 to 30 years of your life. We’ll go bankrupt as a nation just so you can retire a few years earlier.