As$hat: You make it sound like I had a choice! Gee, stupid me … I should have refused.
Not at all. You had no choice. I had no choice. But that doesn't change the fact that the unsound nature of the program was discernible since before I was even in the workforce. There is no justification whatever for believing that you would get what was promised and certainly no justification to believe that those who will pay for YOU will get ANYTHING.
You're not going to claim to be surprised in some future year when people who have been paying you become the majority and REFUSE TO PAY, are you?
Our generation, when it was in the political majority, supported perpetuating and enlarging this program. The next generation, when it is in the political majority, will END IT.
Nobody ever deserved a single dime from this unsound program. And this has been clearly known, I think, for at least thirty years, if not longer.