Leave it to Graham to pick up the chant for CLASS WARFARE!
Ass Warfare. They paid up just like everyone else.
Eventually...probably in fifty years...after we’ve done the first twenty tricks to keep the program going...we will come to the idea of cutting social security for folks who already have a pension (military, government employee, railroad workers, etc). I can envision a 50 percent cut and having a bunch of senators come to agree on this within four to five decades.
The problem here is that the system simply wasn’t designed for the long haul. It doesn’t have the ability to shift or improve itself. Half the tinkering that congress has done over the past two decades has done little to nothing to fix the issues.
I’d even go as far to suggest destroying social security and creating social security version 2. It wasn’t built as a pension program, and we’ve come to envision it as such. I think that’s our first obstacle to overcome.