Which just proves that SS is nothing but a scam. Period. This is why GW Bush proposed (and was pounded for the suggestion) that the government allow real working people to KEEP part of what they had been contributing to invest themselves.
But remember - “we” have to pay for all the folks who work little or none their entire lives, yet draw different forms of SS benefits... disability, crazy checks, medicaid, etc... and now, paying illegals as well...
Makes one want to puke...
I remember when he said this and the fallout afterwards. The most common complaint: Oh, investing is too complicated...I don't want that responsibility. Well, for those idiots, let them stay in the system, but let those of us who still having neurons firing in our brain make our own investment decisions.