[muawiyah]

hmm, Social Security is not an entitlement as that has been defined. An entitlement is 'Oh, gee, another baby, no job, no baby daddy, give me money and food stamps'.

They are paid out of the general revenues.

[EternalVigilance]

They are paid out of the general revenues.

SS taxes are collected into and spent from the general revenues too. It's been that way for a very long time.

Both words, "trust" and "fund" have been fictional for years.

[EternalVigilance]

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and any number of other existing federal programs are actually benevolence.

And I agree with James Madison about the constitutionality of such largesse, which robs from one group of Americans, or from posterity, to benefit another more favored group of Americans.

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

-- James Madison