You’re making the authors point. You dont care that you’re currently or will soon be funded entirely on the backs of people you don’t know and are not beholden to in any way. The money you paid to the system was spent IMEDIATELY. You have no account. You only have those working now slaving away for you as you did for those that came before. Why perpetuate the system instead of doing the right thing? Is it because you’re neoconservative and support socialiam when it benifits you?
If you got robbed, and the robber took all your money away, would you forgive and forget? That is what you are asking of us, and in no way am I going to forgive the debt.
This is the problem with HUGE government run systems like Medicare, SS, Medicaid etc. Once they get started they are very hard to get rid of. Especially if you REQUIRE people to pay into them.
The best thing to do now is to slowly wind them down and then don’t start any more of them.
Most people who are in the system now did not start the system and, though they use it, they don’t understand the unsustainable nature of it. IOW they use it in good faith, not understanding that it is a bankrupt unsustainable system. They were lied to by the people who set it up.
In any case, it may fail on its own and then the problem will be solved ... unless we start more HUGE government programs of a similar nature.