Are you disabled and need a pension? The correct term is " Social Security" not "Welfare"

I prefer the word "Social Security" to so-called "Welfare" -  a term that I would like to see expunged from the bureaucratic lexicon. 

What's wrong with "Welfare"?

Because #Welfare suggests charity. It demeans unemployed recipients as "poor unfortunate souls" or losers at best,  and scroungers and bludgers verging on criminality at worst. 

Without beating the social constructionist drum too much, "Welfare" locates unemployment in the failure of the individual rather than in system failure.

On the contrary,  did you know that the Western Economic System*  is completely reliant on an unemployment rate of at least 5%? 

• as fodder against inflation and 
• as a frightener to keep the "great unwashed" ready to accept poor terms and conditions. 

Why is "Social Security" a better term?

Social Security 

• is simply a term for insurance that is paid for and owned by the general public, and not by "the big end of town". 
• treats us as responsible adults who take out insurance against unemployment via our taxes in case of disability or economic downturns.

Our economic system ( the "It"* that cannot be named") actually depends on what is called a "Reserve Army of the Unemployed" which must comprise at at least 5% of the population. Thus, shouldn't we be paying unemployed people a premium for carrying the system on their backs? 

Social Security is insurance we all pay for in our taxes,  lest we are unable to contribute due to unemployment or disability, or just needing some R&R time off. When I say "all", I have heard rumours that the ultra-rich have ways of weaseling out of paying any taxes at all! Whodda thought it?

The rest of us do not wish to be demeaned for system failure. 

* I didn't want to frighten anyone off with the correct economic 

term for our system - the dreaded C-word