” Because now seniors, a great part of the conservative Republican base are convinced it’s OK to ‘steal’ (as the post puts it)”
Some people have seen hundreds of thousands of dollars taken from them as social security payments. Are you proposing that this money not be paid back to them? If you’re saying that SS should not exist, I agree with that. If you’re saying every penny paid into SS should be given back to every person as a lump sum payment and then SS ends, I agree with that, too.
What’s your solution for people who have paid into SS their entire lives?
I am saying that like you, seniors believe and are told that it's OK to ‘steal’ young workers money, because the dead did the same to them. Do you understand how SS works? There is NO lump sum to ‘give’ back. That money is long spend by people dead. My grandmother got it for 35 years after working three. Do you know the federal government will borrow a third of this year's budget?
Your SS money was also spent on education, pork projects and rebuilding Iraq. It's gone. It's a lie that it's there to 'give back'.