[TomGuy]

How much of the current $16 Trillion debt of the United States is due to Social Security???

Right. WE paid into it for decades.

THEY have been stealing from it for decades.

SS/Medicare in having problems because of THEM and their pilfering.

[SMM48]

Right. WE paid into it for decades...

I'll make this as brief as possible.

Recently re-financed my home. Bank asked for a copy of my S.S. "Awards" letter.

I said, "huh"?

Sure enough, at the top of the letter from S.S. advising me of how much monthly I would receive, it says "NOTICE OF AWARD".

I don't consider S.S. an award if I have been paying into it for 40+ years!