>What makes you think the dems will allow the SS plan to become a poverty program? They’d demagogue it to death.
Yes, this is certainly true, and certainly a justified claim based on prior experience. We are likely hosed.
Unless the voting populace suddenly grows up and learns that free lunches don’t really exist, we are in for a heap of trouble. We’ve been having ‘free’ lunches for a long time now, and the bill is about to come due.
>You still haven’t told me how far down the economic ladder this would have to go prevent economic disaster.
Probably the whole system will have to be cut back. Everyone is likely to feel the pain. To be quite honest, I can’t imagine the system really working for anyone beyond the destitute, because otherwise the numbers are just too large.