I would also vote to do away with it. But only after all the welfare queens and overpaid retired government deadheads are trimmed back. They never paid in dime one.
I'm a retired postal employee. Maybe my pension, modest as it is, is overly generous, but I earned it in good faith, trying to perform my job to the best of my ability. I'll willingly make sacrifices in my benefits if that will truly help fellow citizens avoid privation and destitution.
Why do we have to transfer hate from one group to another? Young people hate older people on Social Security, the privately employed hate civil servants, the employed hate the unemployed, and everybody hates welfare recipients. We're all little people, pawns who have to play the game set up for us by "elites" in government and business. Why do we hate the players when we should hate the game?