The problem is that when the GIs returned from WWII, they caught up on “unfinished business” ant the post war baby boom was the result.
It was like a large bulge going through the snake of US history and overwhelmed everything, especially the Universities, they came in contact with.
It was said that when that bulge passed through things would return to normal but they have not, as more people are needed as workers to support Social Security for the Baby Boomers in their old age, as abortion has decimated the ranks of future workers.
And therein lies the problem with SS. It’s a PNOZI SCHEME! If it had been properly set up, like an IRA, that money paid in by that person, FOR that person, where government can’t touch it, then it would work, and we wouldn’t have this problem.
But the democrats, FDR, designed the system. Any real legitimate attempts to reform it has the dems robo calling their constituents - the elderly - and telling them those mean old republicans want to take away their SS. Which couldn’t be further from the truth.
We just want to make it work for the individual, and only for the individual. Not the collective.