[.cnI redruM]

Exactly. You can intellectually and accurately predict future pain all you want. People, by and large, will never intentionally accept more present pain that they feel to offset a bigger pain that they haven't felt yet.

Also, older people can read actuary tables. They know they are still on the good side of the cost benefit ratio for SS and they've also paid in for entire 30 year careers. If SS got axed dead right now, I'd only lose 10 years of input. A retiree loses an entire career. That changes perspectives.

[cherry]

well, the real answer to Medicare and Social Security is one that no one wants to hear...INDEXING....

iows......phase out benefits for those who don't need them....or those that have ample pension money from their companies or civil service job......

the other fix would be to eliminate the cap on how much money you can earn before SS taxes stop.....I'd like to see the zillionaires pay that 8% on all their income....bet the limosine rich would become conservatives really, really fast...