[expatpat]

Already posted, with the exact same title. Did you search?

[EagleUSA]

Just leave it to the NY Slimes --- always INVENTING (news?) -- as if the CAUSE and SOLUTION to entitlement programs IS NOT WELL KNOWN...God, these people are both lost and incompetent. They are also liberals with a political agenda (profound statement, I know..).

[kevin fortuna]

tax and ss reform should be combined. nothing else makes sense. also, they need to stop saying personal accounts don't address the so-called "solvency issue." they don't address the short-term issue, true, but they would convert the system, gradually, away from being a pay-as-you-go system

[LauraleeBraswell]

Socialized healthcare anyone?

[Restorer]

Doing nothing would lead to enormous deficits, an immobilized government and stratospheric interest rates. It would mean the end of the United States as a great economic power.

It is relevant that all other industrial nations face similar or greater challenges of the same type.

Power, as such, is relative, not absolute. Thus, if other nations are in even worse shape than the US, we will still be a great economic power.