Excellent post sir. Thank you for your contribution of real data to this thread.
As one who is in the group that will have to pay for more people then ever before in American history, my hope was that W would have been able to partially privatize the program in ‘05 with reduced benefits in the future.
It would be terrible to say tomorrow that those who are eligible to receive SSI and Medicare at age 65 now have to wait until 67.
However a phase in of that process is a must. As is a partial privatization, as are young people willing to be paid out less in 35 years (which from my anecdotal evidence, most people my age do NOT expect to get anything from SSI/Medicare 30 years from now)
I have a question...how long have you worked in this Country and from what Country did you come from?