But not the illegal aliens currently being allowed to invade.
We need vetted immigrants who see the USA as the land of opportunity, not the land of the handout.
If we didn’t have tens of millions of immigrants sopping up resources we could just have natural population growth instead.
Social Security never had to be a Ponzi scheme. But when it was drawn up, very few people lived long enough to make a significant withdrawal of the funds that had been deposited. Retirement age was arbitrarily set at 65, when average life expectancy was less than 60 years.
The supposed “Lockbox funding” has been raided time and time again, for short-time contingencies, supposedly to be paid back in the future, but to date, none of the pilfered funds has ever been restored. All there is in the “lockbox” are a bunch of IOU’s, now worth about as much as the paper upon which they were printed, or in today’s digital world, the computer storage space on a server somewhere.