[MaDeuce]

Social Security will end, it just won't be "phased" out. It will end along with Medicare, Medicaid, and welfare in one fell swoop ... it will happen the US reaches it economic colapse in the next 30 years or so. It will happen so fast that 1930 will look like the good old time.

You and I won't be worring about "I can't believe my check ain't coming in the mail any more". We'll be worring about defending the little bit of food and water we have stored from roving bands of gangs. There will be no work, no "savings" ... just you, your family and what ever guns and ammo and provisions you stored away till some sembelence of law and order appear a few years later .... under Sharia Law!

So look at your young kids or grand kids now and think of the HELL HOLE this country will be in next few decades.

Oh, I almost forgot .... Have a nice day :)

[beancounter13]

I hope and pray that your vision will not come true, but I have to agree that it is the most likely scenario. As an "old" Gen Xer, I have known for 15 years that my SSC check would never arrive, but as I get ever older, I also begin to understand the boomers' perspectives --if the younger folks want to take mine away, they will have to fight me for it.

It ultimately comes down to this: at some point the workers will say 'enough' and quit working; then, the house of cards will fall.

[Melas]

You were kicked out of the Optimists Club, weren't you?