Exactly. They've used the SS as a slush fund for years. The chickens are coming home to roost.....and they're trying to blame it on the American people who contribute... versus the ones who utilize it most... and don't.
The SS program if used for "personal retirement" only as it was meant to be used for instead of a government handout for the destitute while at the same time, being paralleled with a welfare program which was created to do the same, SS would be solvent today.
Instead we have multiple government organizations stacked on top of each other performing the same function only to be categorized differently as to maintain numerous bureaucracies who function is to accomplish the same thing.
Of course in the muddled mess of bureaucracy, this gives political opportunity to the access of funds.
Bottom line, funds are being funneled to Washington to give the financially opportunistic politicians a trough for the skimming of funds, available for their own personal political concerns.
And some have a disdain for the skimming of funds by Anan and the UN.....
Yet another reason that if something's illegal in the private sector, it should be illegal for the government to do it as well!
The pyramid scheme known as social security is one example. Another is the way that the pols steal money that's supposed to go into one thing, and divert it into another. That would put a CEO in jail. And the list goes on and on.
Mark