[Joe Brower]

You miss the point that the politicians who were running the government were voted in by the generations that preceded mine, and thus were installed long before I was born.

Mine has been the non-pleasure of having to fight them all my life. And as you probably know already, being professional bureaucrats, they are quite hard to dislodge once they are in place. Especially when they just keep upping the offers of largesse.

[Glenn]

You miss the point that the politicians who were running the government were voted in by the generations that preceded mine

Then you have no point.

Social Security has been increased (more than twice), split out from Medicare, the ceiling increased and the age of retirement upped by two years since I first paid into it when I was16.

Will they finally do the right thing and invest the money? No. Will YOU do anything about it? Probably not. You'll roll with whatever legislation they clobber you with just as all generations have.