I’ve been donating $$$$ to the SS system involuntarily from 1960-2005. SOOOO how are MY benefits courtesy of YOU???? Like I didn’t help pay for the citizens older than myself . Quit whining and get back to work .
We just need to adjust benefits to life expectancy like back in the beginning of SS. People collected when they were 65 and life expectancy was 65.
So adjust for life expectancy and males now get SS at 80 and females get SS at 82.
So Renegade, get back to work!!!
Just hypothetically, let's consider the possibility that the Social Security idea is unsound; that is, when a large working population provides income for a small retiree population, things work fine. But when it's a smaller working population attempting to support a large retiree population, then it doesn't work.
Since the demographics of the Baby Boom have been understood for half a century, then the question becomes, "Who in their right mind would support this system, knowing that it must break down?"
The answer to the question is that such a program is supported by socialists who prefer government "solutions" and control rather than personal freedom and responsibility.
Regardless of the group to which you belonged during your productive years, the foreseeable consequences of Social Security were just that; foreseeable.
You can bet that the productive population, at such time as its numbers permit, will vote away YOUR "entitlements", and justifiably so.