[banjo joe]

were forced into this social security deal

Well said, as is your entire post.

I'm now approaching 50, and when I think of all the $ I've paid into the system, and how much I'll eventually recoup, I get almost physically ill.

[tomahawk]

The problem is that the money we've been forced "to pay into the system" isn't there. It's been spent.

And with 70,000,000 Americans going to retire in the next 20 years (at current benefit levels and retirement ages), the money won't be there. This has been know for a long time, but the politican whores have kept postponing talking about it and dealing with it.

Those of who have been paying in for the last 20 years will never "get our money back".