I agree with you. However, social security has always been an elaborate Ponzi scheme relying on the “full faith and credit” of the US. Social security was originally intended as a safety net, not as broad as it has now become. If anyone should get it, you should, but it is weak and getting weaker because it is a huge govt obligation being paid on a current basis by a smaller and smaller workforce. And unlike you, most people will not have paid into social security as much as they get out of it and I will either get very little, or spend it for heavily inflated expenses/devalued dollar, or both.
The selfsame liberals who insisted on the slaughter are the inheritors/instigators of the Ponzi scheme implosion, partly created by their political progenitors, and accomplished by the horror steadfastly maintained by them to be a "right".
Without the population base, with longer life spans (of course, Obamacare will help 'alleviate' that problem), without a healthy middle-class driven economy, and with ample opportunity for fraud, the system is doomed.
But there is more to population than numbers, there is a cultural component which differs greatly from those raised here to be proud of their country and those who came here to take what they could--who have no loyalty to this nation and no roots within its culture.
For five years, the looting has gone unabated, and the economic vultures are circling.
Now, Obama has called in swarms of maggots to infest and devour...