It sucks that they squandered your money, and it also sucks that they are giving my money to you. Sorry, but that's the truth.
And I'm not greedy for stating it. You got screweed, now I'm getting screwed.
Kinda like the way taxes are pulled from our paychecks to pay the salaries of employees of defense contractors. You create nothing. Economically defense spending is a big suck on an economy. It is taxes, strip mined from paychecks, and spent on things we must have. Say for example, a helicopter.
But needed though it is, economically it is a loss. That is why every society, everywhere calls wars “expensive” and not “economic engines”.
Case study number 1, the USSR. They built so much military equipment that the world is still flooded with it. And they went bankrupt. You don’t base economies on activities that are 100% tax subsidized.
The salaries at the helo plant might as well be welfare too. Sure, they work and roll out a new machine for the government.
But the fact remains, defense spending is a tax supported cost.
Of course, it would be insane to not incur that cost because it’s a basic requirement of society. Some would argue that elderly surviving after a long working life is also a societal function.
The only moral course is to end SS immediately. Fully honor the obligations to the people in the system. It isn’t very conservative to steal around 15% of someones pay for their entire adult life with the promise you’ll pay it back at the end, and the renege on the agreement. Everyone not closing in on retirement age should be free people today to save for their own future with full personal control over their own investments. At most id -maybe- support a mandated minimum percentage that must be saved and invested.
But its childish to say angrily stamp your feet and be angry that your taxes might be sent to someone as an SS payment.