Correctamundo! We were sold into slavery by our grandparents - you know, the greatest generation? Sorry to be so direct about it, but that’s the facts. The voters who elected FDR and the democrats to Congress picked the pockets of their children to pay for their old age, and ever since, every subsequent generation has kept up the con. You couldn’t opt out, and you couldn’t get the time of day from the majority who thought that it was a good con. While it lasted that is. Now our demographics won’t support the con any longer. Too bad for all of us who paid in (me personally I started paying at age 14 and 40 years later I’m still being scammed). We’re not going to get what we put in. All arguments aside, there just isn’t any money. The Republicrats spent it. And you can’t borrow money from yourself, so all those pieces of paper in tbe Bureau of the Public Debt (in Sheets Byrd’s home state, btw) are worthless.
Correct on all counts, but in fairness to the greatest generation, SocSec was originally pushed as in “insurance policy” for your old age. The same way 0bamacare was originally pushed as “insurance reform”. The difference between now and then is that we have the Internet and talk radio not to mention the benefit of our grandparents past experiences being screwed by these progressives. The American people, armed with that knowledge, overwhelmingly rejected 0bamacare and it STILL was forced through. How much harder was it for our grandparents to see through FDR and his looter government.