When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike.