Since I am not running for office, I can say that I DO advocate substantial cuts in Social Security for current recipients. Collectively they have voted in the most elections, and they are more responsible than anyone. If they did not realize that they were participating in a Ponzi scheme, it’s their own fault for not paying attention.
As a practical matter, it may be necessary to exempt current recipients, but there isn’t a moral case for doing so.
Sure because 100% of them voted for the wrong person! Do you actually think before you type?
Economically the best thing we could do right now is simply end Social Security. I say that as a current recipient with no other sort of pension. I wouldn’t like it but I would get by. Alternatively and a little more palatably to the generally less economically educated people and the short sighted ones I say cut off from the system in one action everyone who has not yet reached his 50th birthday. Set up something like the Peruvian system then.