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The problem is, is that SS is mandatory. I have no choice, in this free society. I also think that SS was not demanded by the population at large, but was a remedy imposed by the government (i.e. Roosevelt, et.al.) to buy votes. Never believe anything that the government will tell you.

"It goes directly to the old truism that democracies last only as long as it takes the voters to learn they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. Roosevelt's New Deal taught Americans that lesson."

This is very correct. We are dealing with a Ponzoi scheme, not a solution. Get votes today, and we will be dead and gone when the mud hits the fan.

I am not greedy, however, if I am forced to pay into such a system, It should be expected that there will be a benefit better than low end poverty.

The government is still guilty of fraud in any scenario, if the same standards were imposed upon them that apply to the private sector.

Blessings, Bobo

I also think that SS was not demanded by the population at large, but was a remedy imposed by the government (i.e. Roosevelt, et.al.) to buy votes. Never believe anything that the government will tell you.

Thanks for your unneeded advice - LOL!

But as for SS not being demanded by the voters, nonsense. Meeting voter demands and "buying votes" are just different views of the same horse's rear end. Do you think there was no voter demand for government-financed prescription drugs? I grow increasingly tired of the old "We, the poor put-upon voters" song and dance. We allow the s.o.b.'s to be elected. Let's start putting some of the blame on our own apathy and ignorance of public policy.

The same people we call "the greatest generation" happily tucked napkins into their collars and bellied up to a government-financed feast of historic proportions after WW II. They also produced the most indulged, self-involved, greedy generation of kids in American history. They were more than happy to get rid of Eisenhower's modest fiscal restraints in favor of Kennedy's and Johnson's gluttonous welfare statism in the Roosevelt tradition. Who elected those presidents and the Congresses that enacted their proposals into law? Were the voters simply "bought?" Not in my opinion, unless getting what you demand is being "bought."