[Joe Brower]

"The Ponzi scheme coming home to roost."

Yes. Sooner or later, the bill comes due. That time is rapidly approaching.

However, if you feel so sympathetic to those who paid into SS for so long and will get back less, imagine how my generation feels, who will have paid into it for over FIFTY years, and won't see a single dime.

[45Auto]

There is no question that Social Insecurity is going to go belly-up; its just a matter of time. The level of spending cannot be sustained. Congress has already been quietly "reforming" SS over the last two decades by raising the age for getting benefits at the same time increasing the amount of income subject to SS theft. I'm sure you have felt the crunch just as we all have. SS was put in place before I was born; I have been in favor of a major overhaul of the SS pie from the day I got my first paycheck.

So now, over my working lifetime, the RATs and the Vermin in government have stolen well over six figures from me. I'm sorry, but I want every damn penny back. And I won't settle for less. If I don't get it, there is going to be some major unpleasantness involving aspects of the 2nd Amendment, as is my birthright (and yours). I will settle for a check covering the full amount (with no income payable from it) right now. I will sign away away any future benefits IF the bastards stop taking any more SS withholding from now on. Think it will happen?

[Glenn]

imagine how my generation feels, who will have paid into it for over FIFTY years, and won't see a single dime.

The government is playing you all for suckers. Your inter-generational finger pointing keeps the heat off them. They are the ones who took every dime they could from the fund and used it to finanance the "new world" we live in. They left an IOU. Had they invested the money, this arguing would be hypothetical.

[litehaus]

I tell my kids that they are just handing it over to Mom n Dad..Of course, God willing, we will leave them what they will need since they sure won't get from the defunct Ponzi scheme....