[muawiyah]

Paying in and paying out are two different issues. They are not necessarily linked. Many European states have old age pensions no one paid into ~ actually that's a common occurrence there.

The US government also has RESOURCES that can be titled over to any beneficiaries left over from the good old days.

[GeronL]

I read a story out of Kalipornia where there was a dead guy paid $7.7 million in pension after working as a Capitol aide in Sacramento for 22 years. Those guys paid in NOTHING.